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EXCLUSIVE CLUB
FOR AGEING WHITE
IMPERIALISTS WHO HAD LITTLE
TO OFFER THE REST OF THE WORLD,
OR EVEN TO THEIR OWN YOUTH?! Washington hailed itself
as the Leader of the Free World, but most of its allies were either
authoritarian kings (such as King Khaled of Saudi Arabia, King Hassan of Morocco
& the Persian Shah) or military dictators (such as the Greek colonels, General Pinochet in Chile,
General Franco in Spain, General Park in South Korea, General Geisel in Brazil and Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan)!? Despite the support of all these kings and generals, militarily the Warsaw
Pact had a huge numerical superiority over NATO. In order to reach parity in conventional armament, Western
countries would probably have had to scrap liberal democracy & the free market, and become also as totalitarian
states on a permanent war footing?! Liberal democracy was saved only by nuclear [abc-]
weapons: NATO adopted the MAD doctrine (Mutual Assured Destruction), according to which even conventional
Soviet attacks would be answered by all-out nuclear strikes. 'IF YOU ATTACK US,' threatened the liberals,
'WE WILL MAKE SURE NOBODY COMES OUT ALIVE!' ["I'd rather be dead than Red?"] Behind this
monstrous shield liberal democracy & the Free Market managed to hold out in their last bastions, & Westerners
got to enjoy their version of SEX, DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL, as well as washing machines, refrigerators,
televisons, fruitcakes & fuckups!! Without nukes there would have been no Beatles, no Woodstock
& no overflowing supermarkets? But in the mid-1970s it seemed that nuclear weapons notwithstanding,
the future belonged to socialism! And then every thing changed: liberal democracy
crawled out of the history's dustbin, cleaned itself up & conquered the world
because the supermarket proved to be
far stronger than
the gulag?!
EXCLUSIVE CLUB
FOR AGEING WHITE
IMPERIALISTS WHO HAD LITTLE
TO OFFER THE REST OF THE WORLD,
OR EVEN TO THEIR OWN YOUTH?! Washington hailed itself
as the Leader of the Free World, but most of its allies were either
authoritarian kings (such as King Khaled of Saudi Arabia, King Hassan of Morocco
& the Persian Shah) or military dictators (such as the Greek colonels, General Pinochet in Chile,
General Franco in Spain, General Park in South Korea, General Geisel in Brazil and Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan)!? Despite the support of all these kings and generals, militarily the Warsaw
Pact had a huge numerical superiority over NATO. In order to reach parity in conventional armament, Western
countries would probably have had to scrap liberal democracy & the free market, and become also as totalitarian
states on a permanent war footing?! Liberal democracy was saved only by nuclear [abc-]
weapons: NATO adopted the MAD doctrine (Mutual Assured Destruction), according to which even conventional
Soviet attacks would be answered by all-out nuclear strikes. 'IF YOU ATTACK US,' threatened the liberals,
'WE WILL MAKE SURE NOBODY COMES OUT ALIVE!' ["I'd rather be dead than Red?"] Behind this
monstrous shield liberal democracy & the Free Market managed to hold out in their last bastions, & Westerners
got to enjoy their version of SEX, DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL, as well as washing machines, refrigerators,
televisons, fruitcakes & fuckups!! Without nukes there would have been no Beatles, no Woodstock
& no overflowing supermarkets? But in the mid-1970s it seemed that nuclear weapons notwithstanding,
the future belonged to socialism! And then every thing changed: liberal democracy
crawled out of the history's dustbin, cleaned itself up & conquered the world
because the supermarket proved to be
far stronger than
the gulag?!
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