Comments on: Cold War Redux: More Chest-Thumping From Moscow http://informedspeculation.com/2007/02/21/cold-war-redux-more-chest-thumping-from-moscow/ Refunds Cheerfully Given To All Who Disagree Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dennis http://informedspeculation.com/2007/02/21/cold-war-redux-more-chest-thumping-from-moscow/comment-page-1/#comment-241551 Dennis Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:16:35 +0000 http://decision08.net/2007/02/21/cold-war-redux-more-chest-thumping-from-moscow/#comment-241551 During the Cold War days, Soviet apologists used to explain that the Warsaw Pact was necessary for the Russian psyche. The theory was that the German invasion in World War II was devastating, which it surely was, so naturally the Soviets needed a cordon sanitaire of sorts, and the Eastern Bloc filled that role. The reasoning seemed pretty dodgy, given that we seemed to maintain our own alliance without having to send in tanks to quell Western Europeans, and it also ignore dthe obvious differences between NATO and Nazi Germany. Anyway, I'll be curious to see if those old arguments start popping up again. "Why, Mr. Putin has no <i>choice</i> but to threaten the Czechs and Poles, lest Cowboy Bush come charging into St. Petersburg and breaking all the Feberge eggs." During the Cold War days, Soviet apologists used to explain that the Warsaw Pact was necessary for the Russian psyche. The theory was that the German invasion in World War II was devastating, which it surely was, so naturally the Soviets needed a cordon sanitaire of sorts, and the Eastern Bloc filled that role. The reasoning seemed pretty dodgy, given that we seemed to maintain our own alliance without having to send in tanks to quell Western Europeans, and it also ignore dthe obvious differences between NATO and Nazi Germany.

Anyway, I’ll be curious to see if those old arguments start popping up again. “Why, Mr. Putin has no choice but to threaten the Czechs and Poles, lest Cowboy Bush come charging into St. Petersburg and breaking all the Feberge eggs.”

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