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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Message-ID: <775@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 88 09:22:11 GMT
References: <5044@brspyr1.BRS.Com> <825@novavax.UUCP>
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In article <825@novavax.UUCP> nanook@novavax.UUCP (Kieth Dickinson) writes:
>in article <5044@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout) says:
>> Sorry, but you have this backwards.  All nations engage in military adventures
>> only when they feel threatened. 
>
>I'm sure that the Germans were feeling REAL threatend back during World War II
>when all of those nasty countries like Poland (with it's horseback cavalry) and
>the such were threatening to take over the country!

They _weren't_ threatened, but they *FELT* threatened.
They were also in economic trouble, which is worth bearing in mind
when people suggest bringing the USSR to its knees economically.
Those were far from the only factors, but they were factors.