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I don't miss the 18hour europe-far east flights with stopovers in Alaska or India because you couldn't fly over the USSR. Of course that was because the USSR w
by iujyhfgtrtgyhju 16y ago
I don't miss the 18hour europe-far east flights with stopovers in Alaska or India because you couldn't fly over the USSR.
Of course that was because the USSR was an evil empire with an out of control military, a bloated sense of it's own importance and a paranoia about foreigners.
- StavrosK 16y ago> Of course that was because the USSR was an evil empire with an out of control military, a bloated sense of it's own importance and a paranoia about foreigners. Wait, are you implying that that is now the US, or should I make that implication?
- iuguy 16y agoAs someone from a country with a long history of imperial aggression, bloated sense of self-importance and paranoia of foreigners you have to call it as you see it, and that's what the US is today. You don't have to believe me, just ask an Afghan.
- tptacek 16y agoWe sure did wreck that place up, didn't we.
- iujyhfgtrtgyhju 16y agoIt's our 3rd Afghan war - you would think we would have either got the hang of it or learned our lesson by now
- iuguy 16y agoTo be fair, we British have pretty good form on doing terrible things to Afghanistan, and it wasn't exactly a source of pleasantness when we all went in this time round. While I accept the original mission was justified for the US, I have absolutely no idea what we were doing in Iraq other than empire-building.
- middus 16y agoThe USSR in the 90s?