Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Soviet Strategy Message-ID: <2743@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 20:28:01 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbcad.2743 Posted: Tue Oct 16 20:28:01 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 08:32:07 EDT References: <1717@sdccs6.UUCP>, <479@tty3b.UUCP> <803@eisx.UUCP> Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 8 It's not so much Western Eupore that the Soviets want, it's the Middle East. Since the middle ages Russia has coveted Constantinople and the Dardanelles, and now that the Mideast has become so strategically important because of its oil, the temptation has become much stronger. Why else would the USSR go to so much much trouble consolidating its power in Afghanistan? Wayne