[Milsurplus] was strategic war, now OT

[J. Forster]

>  From someone whose country was below where the nuclear missiles were to
> be intercepted I do think Ronnie Ray-gun had a lot to do with diffusing
> things. He talked the talk & walked the walk & this was language the
> Russkies understood.
>
> At least today's POTUS hasn't fabricated a reason to invade another
> country.

Yet

-John

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> Trying to keep to topic - at least the cooling has created some surplus
> comm equipment and some neat underground holiday retreats. Underground
> ham shack anyone?
>
> Bruce   ve7mt
>
>
> On 1/30/2010 6:27 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>> Gene wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If you study the history of Eastern Europe in the late 1980s I think
>>> you'll find that politics, as well as hardware, influenced events that
>>> caused the collapse of the Iron Curtain.  Specifically, look to the
>>> common
>>> cause of both President Ronald Reagan and the Pope JP II - support for
>>> those
>>> oppressed by Communism.
>>>
>> I agree...it was the lucky coincidence of Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul
>> II,
>> and Margaret Thatcher, plus the reasonable Mikail Gorbashev on the other
>> side,
>> that set things up for the Cold War's end.
>>
>> Heaven help us, with today's clowns in the equivalent positions (except
>> Pope)
>> who are controlling events today.
>>
>> Mike / KK5F
>>
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