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Originally Posted by bailaviborita
Are they all in a period of "temporary accomodation"? If they are, they wouldn't admit it. Does this all sound too "conspiratorial"? To me it many times does. We might be attributing more coordination and focus than these groups really have.
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...the core question of the Cold War.
What is wrong with an approach that is
informed by the following sensibility?
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Soviet calculations of possible war outcomes under any contingency must always result in outcomes so unfavorable to the USSR that there would be no incentive for Soviet leaders to initiate an attack.*
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* Ronald W. Reagan, National Security Decision Directive Number 75, U.S. Relations with the USSR, 17 January 1983, p. 2 as printed in Christopher Simpson, ed.,
National Security Directives of the Reagan and Bush Administrations: The Declassified History of U.S. Political and Military Policy, 1981-1991 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995), p. 256.