> In article <joqbo4$1g...@dont-email.me>, faken...@nomail.invalid says...

> > Bill wrote:
> > > In article <joo7he$ro...@dont-email.me>, faken...@nomail.invalid says...

> > >> Bill wrote:
> > >>> In article <jont91$9q...@dont-email.me>, faken...@nomail.invalid
> > >>> says...

> > >>>> UNLESS,....the russian's were in on it too.

> > >>>> Do you really think the whole cold war was not just a theatrical
> > >>>> production to justify the military industrial complexes of BOTH
> > >>>> nations, wasting billion of dollars ?

> > >>>> Vietnam was staged,...just look up Gulf Of Tonkin.
> > >>>> Or Operation Northwoods
> > >>>> But allowed both sides to play, without hurting each other.

> > >>>> Each side having one "bomb" was a balance of power.
> > >>>> Both amassing enough firepower to destroy the world at least 400
> > >>>> times,.....really lined someone's pockets.

> > >>>> ....Or do you think some company was making the bombs for free ?

> > >>> So why on earth did the Soviet Union spend itself into oblivion buying
> > >>> arms to defend itself against the rest of the world?

> > >>> If it was all a hoax they could have built cardboard ones...

> > >> So could the U.S,.....and who says half of the missiles the taypayers
> > >> paid for,.. AREN'T cardboard.

> > > The US ones don't matter.

> > > The USA won so whatever they did worked.

> > Uh, .....when did the U.S win ?

> 1989,  or didn't you notice?

> > I think China is still in the lead, and Cuba seems to even be doing better
> > than the US

> Ah,  you're still insane then...

> > So who was it YOU THINK won the missle crisis ?

> The point about the 'missile crisis' is that nobody actually died.

> > > What matters is that the Soviet ones certainly were real.  We know that
> > > because buying them broke their society.

> > I think they are still there, and get their bombs at Walmart now

> When you've just buried yourself i na  hole of your own making it's
> usually considered wise to stop digging down and try and get out.