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when people act as if the world is crazy today they have no idea what the military and politicians were doing a scant fifty years ago. people need to understan
by Shivetya 10y ago
when people act as if the world is crazy today they have no idea what the military and politicians were doing a scant fifty years ago.
people need to understand that the crazy they see today has been around for a long time and those in power need to be kept in constant check
- hga 10y agoWhat was "crazy" about the US making very concrete preparations like this one for the threat of the Red Army pouring through the Fulda Gap into western Europe? (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)#Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)...) Now, Stalin and Khrushchev, you could well say they're crazy (the latter's peers judged him so after the Cuban Missile Crisis), but one thing seared into the minds of the Westerners fighting the Cold War in this period was the price of ignoring people like them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II).