[midoridensha]

>Fear of russian aggression gave us the internet, nuclear weaponry, jet engines and the space program.

This isn't quite true. Jet engines were already being developed during WWII, including in Germany. The space program in the US was partially a by-product of the German rocketry developments.

So yes, wars and conflict have driven many technological developments, but some of them go back farther than you think, or are not just because of "fear of russian aggression".

[yetanotherforg]

Yes, and between the terroristic birth of communism, and 9/11, protection from russia's annexation of dozens of countries and their sociopathic disregard for life was as the primary motivation of Europe and America's defense research. Now they are also helping get the contrarians behind green power. It will also the lazy oil-bearing gulf states hang themselves.

Yes the germans created rocketry and the first jet engines, which they created as weapons against the communists. In cooperation with Europe, the United States of America annexed hitler's scientists and technologies, and used them to help defend ourselves from the communist plague. We also quite successfully commercialized these technologies.

Fear of being a communist slave by a country which has no problems working or starving its captives to death in the name of the state ideoloy, well, it's a hell of a motivator. I remember my great grandmothers' stories about the russian pogroms very well.