At 22:33 24-5-01 -0700, Darryl Shannon wrote:
>Yes, an invasion of America itself
>was never seriously considered. But Soviet tanks were always ready to
>roll into Europe, if conditions were ever ripe.
Just as NATO tanks were always ready to roll into Eastern Germany, should
the NATO generals deem it necessary. Nothing strange about that -- it's
just basic military readiness.
I still doubt that the Warsaw Pact seriously considered invading Western
Europe, though. They knew very well it would be extremely difficult and
extremely expensive to win a war against NATO. Contrary to popular
capitalist belief, communists aren't all that stupid. They have different
ideas, but they aren't stupid.
>Grenada was the first country that
>endured a communist takeover to be liberated since WWII.
Funny thing, that. When the Soviets invaded a country, it was called
"communist aggression" and "takeover", but when the US invaded a country,
that very same aggressive act was all of a sudden called "liberation"...
Jeroen
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