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"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message
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Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
Bertie the Bunyip wrote in
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Mxsmanic wrote in
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Gig 601XL Builder writes:

So is it your opinion that had the US not sworn to protect Western
Europe during the cold war the USSR would probably still not ever
attemped to take over Western Europe?

I don't know. Would the US have attempted to take over Warsaw Pact
countries if the USSR had not been protecting them?

Good grief.

Mx has a point. The situation was symmetrical, i.e. from their POV the
Warsaw Pact thought they were "protecting" themselves from an imminent
attack by NATO.


Really, you think so? I love revisionist history.

Almost as much as subjectivist history based on Marxian dialectic.