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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Nuclear silliness II - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 13:50:07 EST
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Tim Bray thinks that we shouldn't spend any money defending Western
Europe as the Soviets would not invade it.

Do you really think the Soviets would not try to blackmail parts
of Western Europe if the need (from the Soviet point of view)
arose?

What about the Soviet blockade of West Berlin?  What if that happened
again?  Do you think we should just concede that to the Soviets?

How far should we go?  Should we let the Soviets annex small pieces
of Western Europe at their leisure?

I think you should examine the historical facts a little.

Allen England at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
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