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From: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev)
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Subject: Re: Call for action on an Alternative to the Nuclear Dilemma
Message-ID: <247@birtch.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 17:05:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 17:05:01 1986
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In article <316@fear.UUCP> robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon) writes:
>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.
>
>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.

Allow me to add a few :
War with Finland, conquest of Poland, 2 invasion into France, war with Japan
over China in the late 1930's( before WWII), conquest of what now are Asian
republics of USSR, reclaiming the pieces of the Russian Empire after the
communist revolution (against the desires of the local population).
Plus : invasion of Hungary, Chechoslovakia, almost invasion of Poland,
participation in wars in Vietnam, Campuchia, Laos, Cuba, Angola, Nicaragua,
S. Yemen (sp?), Arab-Israeli wars (direct aid in military personel, advisors
and technology to Egypt up to early '70s)

No, US is not what one could call a pacifist country. Neither is USSR.
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