Reagan and Thatcher did not terrify the Russians with intermediate range Pershing’s. Reagan, using Pershing IIs, deterred the massive, overwhelming Warsaw Pact armor sitting on the East German border from steamrolling NATO and blitzkrieging on to the channel. That is the only reason Reagan ever gave for deploying them there. That is exactly the reason you will have Russian intermediate range nukes in Belarus, to deter the overwhelming offensive NATO forces poised to roll on Moscow. If you’d invest a whole lot of time familiarizing yourself with Cold War I history you’d be able to predict Cold War II moves like this, as yours truly did a year ago. I suppose it was the KGB in Hollywood that produced The Day After for the sole purpose of derailing the Pershing IIs. I suppose the American and European left had nothing to do with the massive “no first use” movement either. They were all KGB operatives as well. You make even less sense when you can’t just repeat administration talking points and have to rely on your own imagination to explain what was happening forty years ago in Cold War I.
“”If you’d invest a whole lot of time familiarizing yourself with Cold War I history you’d be able to predict Cold War II moves like this, as yours truly did a year ago.”” “”You make even less sense when you can’t just repeat administration talking points and have to rely on your own imagination to explain what was happening forty years ago in Cold War I.””
I thought I was familiarizing myself with the Cold War history when I went back into the military because I wanted to serve under Reagan because of his aggressiveness against Russia in the Cold War and was in a Soviet-focused unit attached to military intelligence in our NATO forces 40 years ago.