Reply #17: exaggerated... how about provoked. [View All]

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Firstly i think the US has had now a little taste of what its like to be attacked in war.. 3000 dead... and that lead to invasions and global military action. Russia was invaded twice by germany in less than 40 years losing some 20 million people... understandably this created a touchy militarist state.

Then on reading about operation home run in 1948, america flew over 40 bombers over russia to test whether they could attack and shoot down those aircraft. The russians did not know that those planes did not have live nukes on them... and i think we'd be a little paranoid about an enemy that flys over our airspace with bomber wings.

We provoked the shit out of them. On visiting Saint Petersburg during the 1998 currency collapse, i felt that the USSR was grossly overinflated to be an enemy anywhere but on its own soil.

I'm sure there are a gazillion incedents like operation home run where american hawks tried to start a nuclear war... cold war my ass... provocation more like.