![]() When you beat up the biggest bully on the playground, you don’t say to his buddies, ‘Now, let’s all get along.’ You say, ‘Who’s next? You want some? Come on.’”īack in 1989, China was also no threat … they weren’t even on the military’s radar screen. Bush, declaring he wanted to lead a “kinder gentler America.” I remember thinking, “What a weak and whimpering way to move on from one of the greatest displays of strength and resolve in history. Although no one “wins” a nuclear war, America would survive – and Russia would not. America’s arsenal of weapons could kill every Russian citizen, so mutually assured destruction was kinda/ sorta gone. ![]() ![]() If Russia tried to act alone, none of their former comrades would help them - and they knew it. Yes, the individual states still had nukes, but they were so bitterly divided, they couldn’t agree on what brand of vodka goes best with breakfast. The Soviet states fell into such chaos it seemed even the threat of nuclear war was over. An empire run by psychopaths for almost a century finally caved, and good triumphed over evil. As I was getting out of the Marine Corps back in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell.Īnd for American warriors, that seemed to be it - peace had come.
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