[irtheory] War ain't beanbag. Irony is conserved.

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 10:17 PM +0200 6/13/04, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
>Weapons can mean a lot, but they are far from being everything.

Tell that to the USSR.

An economy produces weapons. Just the prospect of a new battlefield, real
or not, coupled with the largest military buildup in history, crushed them.

When they signed an agreement saying that nuclear war was unwinnable and
should happen, they lost, right then and there.

Cheers,
RAH

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