Originally Posted by
West Coast
Would you prefer to say the primary threat Western Europe faced during the Cold War is no more?
Russia isn’t the USSR, the threat of Soviet tanks rolling down the Fulda Gap is long gone. Brush fire wars which Europe should be able to handle minus massive US support are the norm.
The last bout of unpleasantness can be traced back to the humiliation heaped upon a defeated Germany. The next outbreak of unpleasantness may well be a product of the humiliation heaped upon the Soviet Union by the USA and NATO. Just as the former was preceded by rapid rearmament of a nation that was reduced to economic impotency, much the same might be said of modern Russia.
The strain on the economy of Germany meant it was almost obliged to go to war in order to plunder the treasuries of the countries that it occupied, and a similar cause and effect could well occur with Russia.
This from a publisher not a million miles from you West Coast:-
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...425-story.html
In the meantime the assassinations using ever more terrifying methods will no doubt continue. No doubt the trains run on time though!