[rhizome]

The Cold War was a sham, nobody was ever going to fire missiles except by mistake. It was just a way to maintain military budgets (and contracts) when peace broke out after WWII. Any instability in the main was only ever by design.

Look at all the people who went supernova when Clinton downsized the military after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR.

"Generals and majors always seem so unhappy 'less they got a war."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiLuYZNzNyc

[christocracy]

> except by mistake

No small threat; plenty of room for those, according to Daniel Ellsberg’s book ”The Doomsday Machine”.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-doomsday-machine-978160819...

[forest_dweller]

Stalin would have rolled over Europe if he had half the chance. Nukes like it or not is the reason why we haven't had WW3.

[vagrantJin]

True. Mutually assured destruction is an effective deterrent. But should one nation fire a nuke and the other appeals to neutrals- Behold the lunatics have unleashed world killing weapons on us! - the first nation will become the beligerent state and effectively lose their war.

[rhizome]

Were nukes the only way to deal with his appetite?