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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Seems we came real close in 1983 and didn't even know it at the time. Why? Basically, because the dying Communist Party was paranoid, and Reagan's policy of rattling nuclear sabers was getting to them. So we were set to do an exercise involving a simulated nuclear attack on Pact forces, the Russians thought it might be real, and set up a pre-emptive strike....
This is one of the most chilling lines I have ever read from an official document, from a later 'postmortem' analysis: “In 1983, we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...8a2_story.html |
Hair Trigger Relationship...vow!
One of the reasons I believe Vlad was between a rock and a hard place :Hillary famous words on the demise of Gadafi, her talk on no fly zone in Syria juxtaposed with an erratic Trump.
The perception that Russia was weak had to be quickly denied and MAD re-emphasized. Hence notice the open publication of hypersonic and doomsday weaponry.
Vlad and Lavrov have been calling for sensible protocols and Uncle Joe has agreed.