Originally Posted by
tom prendergast
He is explicitly talking about the post war period before the Cold War really started where the US totally failed to understand the paranoia of the USSR about being invaded again hence their need to provide a buffer zone. Too bad for the Eastern Europeans but they were left to their fate anyway in the big carve up at Yalta. The Russians were just not interested in world domination and more with ensuring that they couldn't be caught with their pants down again. I just don't think that anybody in the US, at that time, was able to understand what effect losing 20 odd million people in the war had on the Russian mindset.
When Stalin died there was another window of opportunity with Khrushchev but as the article says, the US hawks and red necks just saw that as weakness and could only see missile and satellite gaps to be exploited and used to hoodwink the US public.
Do tell us about the brilliant understanding of what was occurring in Russia that the British and French displayed.
Do tell us about the brilliance of the British when they broke up the Ottoman empire. What exactly were their guidelines when creating countries? Was it something to the effect of 'just draw random lines with no regard for the historical violence between the various religious sects. Let's do try to put some of each sect in each country we create and then see what happens'?
Do tell us how the partitioning of Israel worked out for the British.
Do tell us how much the Syrians and Lebanese people enjoyed French mandates
The British and French were a plague on the world.... but do tell us how insightful they were at the end of WWII. What did their lack of naivete propel them to do?
Quote from Cypress:
"Scientists don't use "averages". Maybe armchair supertools on message boards ascribe some meaning to "averages" between two random data points. And maybe clueless amatuers "draw a straight line" through two random end data points to define a "trend". Experts don't.
They use mean annual and five year means in trend analysis. Don't tell me I have to explain the difference to you. "
Bookmarks