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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Call for action on an Alternative to the Nuclear Dilemma
Message-ID: <1053@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 14:49:56 EST
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1053
Posted: Thu Jan  9 14:49:56 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jan-86 07:27:35 EST
References: <316@fear.UUCP> <1043@abnji.UUCP>
Reply-To: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr
Lines: 26
Keywords: USSR, World War II,
Summary: Russian/US History

In article <1043@abnji.UUCP> nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) writes:
>To the best of my knowledge, we were not a participant in the Napoleonic
>Wars, Russo-Japanese War, interventions in Eastern Europe, or Afganistan.

The War of 1812 (US nomenclature) is reasonably classed as one of the
Napoleonic Wars, since the US fought Britain, which was at war with
France.  One of the causes of the war was the British practice of
stopping American vessels on the high seas and "drafting" sailors into
the Royal Navy (claiming the ones they nicked were in fact English draft
dodgers to begin with).  So the US was fighting Britain which was
fighting France which was (early in the war) invading Russia.  That sort
of indirectly puts the US at war with Russia (by a rather far-fetched
logic).  As for Afghanistan, the US is known to be aiding the Afghan
patriots.

>Russia did not leave WWI when the czar abdicated.

True.  The Tsar abdicated in March of 1917 but the war did
not end until the peace of Brest-Litovsk one year later.  The failure of
the revolutionary government to end the hugely unpopular war was one of
the reasons for the eventual Bolshevik takeover.
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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