Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site erix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!enea!erix!mike From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: We need the arms race Message-ID: <709@erix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:42:44 EST Article-I.D.: erix.709 Posted: Mon Jan 14 11:42:44 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 10:13:15 EST References: <733@loral.UUCP> Reply-To: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 43 Summary: In article <733@loral.UUCP> rfs@loral.UUCP () writes: >The Soviets will never attack us unless we attack them first. Look >at their history. They're bassically cowards. Not cowards, realists (rather unpleasant realists admittedly). Look at how many of them were killed in WW1 and WW2. They probably have a far better idea of the effects of WW3 than most of us in the West. >Before world war II >they attacked small helpless countries on their borders (i.e Poland >in 1939 (along with hitler)). Since WW II they've attacked only >helpless countries DIRECTLY on their borders (Hungary, Checz, Afganastan >and threatened Poland). If you think about it they've never gone >beyond their borders. So... Get those nukes out of Europe. The Russians are far less of a threat to us if we don't have nuclear weapons in Europe. >The US on the other hand goes acrossed oceans >and attacks another country. We have guts. Sometimes more guts than >brains. We should'nt worry about the Soviets as long as we don't >bother their MOTHERLAND. The US have never lost nearly as many people in a war as the Soviets have. Pearl Harbour was maybe the nearest approximation to a modern war on US soil. I doubt that the "Average American Politician (however you define that) can realy envisage what a full scale nuclear war in the US would mean. I am far more worried about trigger happy American ex-filmstars (well, minor filmstars) than the senile leaders in the Kremlin. > >The arms race is good for peace. We make something then the Soviets >make it too. We have more money than they do. If we keep this up >they will go BANKRUPT and we win. I don't believe that. The Soviets will continue to match US nuclear arms production even if they cause famine in the USSR. They also seam to be crazed by the idea that the only way to maintain peace is to maintain the balance of nuclear arms. They would probably see famine as preferable to nuclear war. Mike Williams (mike@erix)