At 04:56 PM 6/1/01 +0200 Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten 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.
Except for the fact that the USSR was spouting off about manifestos, unity
of the proletariat, and the historical dialectic long before a Western
threat to invade Russia could even have been conceived. Gautam can
correct me if I am wrong, but I think that those policies of the USSR go
back to the 1930's.
Thus, its a nice hypothesis Sonja, but it just doesn't fit the evidence.
JDG
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