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« on: October 11, 2016, 07:49:18 AM » |
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« edited: October 11, 2016, 07:51:11 AM by Boko Harambe »
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One fundamental difference between this and the cold war, though, is that during the cold war, the hot spots such as Berlin and Cuba were of a stature that made them indepensibly important to the US, while now we seem fairly content with letting Russia have its wars in Eastern Europe as long as they don't try to bother any NATO countries. What kind of conflict short of a total invasion by Russia of a NATO country would actually lead to full-on war, and what country would Russia be stupid enough (or suicidal enough) to invade? The incentives just aren't there.
The one possibility that comes to mind would be if The nationalist fervor in Russia boils up so high as to force Putin to invade the Baltics. But at this point, that seems a long way off, and Putin seems a bit smarter than to allow that to happen.
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