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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEver heard: "The won the war, but lost the peace"?
We won the Cold War, but we're losing the Cold Peace...
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Ever heard: "The won the war, but lost the peace"? (Original Post)
Aristus
Dec 2019
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Turbineguy
(39,912 posts)1. The Russians
recruited enemies domestic.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)2. "This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years."
(French Gen. Foch on the Treaty of Versailles)
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Yes!
Golden Raisin
(4,750 posts)4. I disagree. The Russians finally if belatedly won the Cold War,
all without firing a single bullet. Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, etal. all chortling, chuckling from that great dacha in the sky while downing vodka shots. We have a compromat puppet installed in the Oval Office, malignant and destructive 24/7 chaos and daily deconstruction of our Constitution, Laws, Elections and Norms. Putin smirking.
lame54
(39,317 posts)5. Not fired a single shot?...
Are you being literal or do poisonings and dropping from windows not count
