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Originally Posted by DuH2
We'll face off with them......what do you mean what will we do?
I dunno though can the 90's kids handle the Russians?..Serious question....
Remember you need 24-26 or so to even really remember the reality of the USSR and thats the tail end Gorbasm(remember that term?  ) years...which where unreal. Imagine Breshnev and the Russians flexing at this time period...yeah I'd be scared for Alaska would be handed back.
I grew up with an ideological movement the equivlant of the Nazis in many ways with an empire to match and thousands of nuclear weapons 30 minutes away......there used to be over 100 Soviet divisons poised to invade West Germany.....kids today have no idea what that was like.
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You really miss the old fear of being nuked at any time, don't you. Or maybe you got so ingrained in living your life with fear as your signpost, that you don't know any way to keep your bearings unless war is your guide.
The answer to the question is that we should work to move forward as a civilization and try to ban weapons from space.
The other reality we need to face, is that we are in massive debt and can't afford another arms race in space.
And finally, there is the reality that if we ever really face off with China or Russia or another such country that is not a middle east backwater, then they will blow all of our GPS satellites out of space and some of our technological advantage will be gone.
And just FYI, I remember the cold war, I just don't miss it.