>Sonja wrote:
>Devils advocate here:
>
>If I were the USSR and knew that I would loose in the event that the forces
>on
>the other side would invade my side. And assuming that I don't trust the
>governing bodies on the other side. How would I prevent them from crossing
>into
>my teritory? I'd mass my forces at the borders shouting as loud as I can
>that
>I'd invade the other side if I'd get half a chance. Thereby I'd bind the
>forces
>of the opposition in a place convenient to me and I'd be relatively safe
>that
>neither side would risk a full scale battle with uncertain outcome because
>of
>the involvement of a huge amount of forces massed in one particular spot.
Let me start by re-quoting the first line of your reply: "If I were the USSR
and knew that I would loose in the event that the forces on
the other side would invade my side"
This is an assumption that they thought the West wanted to invade them. If
they were simply massing the troops as a defensive force, why would they
declare that they intended to be an offensive force?
Reggie Bautista
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