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Originally posted by socrates
I think we will agree to disagree on this one and let it go. For me it is plain to see, for you it is clearly not.
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Well, if you've set it forward plainly somewhere in this thread I've missed it. Are you afraid that the EU and the US will go to war over oil (<i>"...major fall out between the EU and US some point in the future over oil distribution..."</i>) and wistful that having the good old Soviets around would somehow prevent that (<i>"...the worst thing that could have happened to upset the equilibrium of the globe has been the demise of the USSR..."</i>)?
That strikes me as a wildly farfetched scenario on both counts...but I'm not trying to build a straw man here.
I'm sure there's a lot of nostalgia for the good old days when one could play the US and the Soviets off against each other for years on end; the threat of MAD was a small price to pay for *that* kind of fun. But I suppose all good things must come to an end.