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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
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Subject: Re: Call for action on an Alternative to the Nuclear Dilemma
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 12:32:47 EST
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>In article <1251@sdcsvax.UUCP> jc@sdcsvax.UUCP (John Cornelius) writes:
>>In the 200 years or so that this country has been engaged in international
>>politics we have been in a fair number of wars....
>>                                            ... The Russian Empire has been
>>invloved in only 3 or 4 of those and in all cases they have been our ally, not
>>our enemy.
>
>Nice try.

Try reading.  In the 200 years this country has been around, we have
been involved in a fair number of wars, of which the Russians have
been involved in three or four, always as our ally.  That is the way
it read to me. (Or at least your exerpting of it.)

>The Napoleonic Wars, The Russo-Japanese War, WWI, The Russian
>Revolution, WWII, various invasions of rebellious Eastern European
>countries, Afghanistan...sounds like more than "3 or 4" to me, bunky,
>and they were only allied with us in any meaningful sense in WWII,
>since the Czar abdicated about the time of the US entry in WWI.

To the best of my knowledge, we were not a participant in the Napoleonic
Wars, Russo-Japanese War, interventions in Eastern Europe, or Afganistan.

Russia did not leave WWI when the czar abdicated.  With the exception
of the Russian Revolution, US troops have never fought against
Russian troops.
-- 
James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	{ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa

"It's a sort of mini-clone!"  Who said them, what story?