In exchange for Russian support for our violent seizure of all Middle East oil reserves, the United States would agree to support the USSR in a "pre-emptive nuclear strike" against targets in China, destroying at least 90 per cent of that nation's industrial capacity and reducing the population to a state of chaos, panic and famine for the next hundred years. This would end the Kremlin's worries about China, guarantee peace in Indochina for the foreseeable future, and insure a strong and friendly ally, in Japan, as kingpin of the East.
I wonder how much of this is true, and how much is anti-Nixonian ranting...
IIRC, the Russians did actually ask us at one point if we would mind
if the Soviet Union did a complete Pre-emptive Nuclear First Strike
on China...we of course said we'd mind
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Yes, because it's always good to throw a billion people into absolute chaos. Peace in Indochina my left cheek, refugees would be pouring over the borders by the tens of thousands.
"Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me...God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist." -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"Hal grabs life by the balls and doesn't let you do that [to] hal."
"I hereby declare myself master of the known world."
This day is Fantastic!
Myers Briggs: ENTJ
Political Compass: -3/-6 DOOMerWoW
"I really hate it when the guy you were pegging as Mr. Worst Case starts saying, "Oh, I was wrong, it's going to be much worse." " - Adrian Laguna
Talk about Cold War fever. Nuclear weapons in the amounts that Russia and the US has ensure absolute security from competing nation states ambitions on their own territory. Hence, China messes with Russia, China gets nuked. Simple.
Peace in Indochina my left cheek, refugees would be pouring over the borders by the tens of thousands.
