-----Mensagem original----- De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de Chris Doss Enviada em: segunda-feira, 11 de fevereiro de 2002 03:21 Para: 'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com' Assunto: RE: Russian take on Bush's State of the Union blather
Assymetrical response. It costs a lot less to slap multiple warheads on your nukes than it does to build high-falutin' and probably non-functional Star Wars systems.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal ------------------
-But nuclear weapons are good to threaten your enemy with destruction (ie., -assure you a stalemate in a total war). But they doesn?t help too much -as instrument of power projection, which is much more important when -two superpowers compete for global domination. Here a sizeable economy -and conventional weapons are of utmost importance.
Alexandre Fenelon