Comments by "Steven O\x27Brien" (@stevenobrien557) on "USHANKA SHOW" channel.

  1. As a member of security services being caught with foreign currency could get you in a lot more trouble than merely taking a low level traffic bribe due to the implication of being influenced by foreign actors. Not damning evidence but in a crackdown if someone wanted to make a bigger thing...
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  2.  @IcelanderUSer  the fear wasn't that someone was going to decide to start a full scale nuclear exchange, the fear was that someone was going to start a limited nuclear attack and it would escalate from there. NATO were definitely going to have to resort to tactical nuclear strikes in the event of an invasion and after the fall of communism it turned out the Warsaw Pact were planning pre emptive tactical nuclear strikes in their Seven Days to the River Rhine war plan.
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  3. Lucas lied about a lot of things, he was certainly a liar.
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  4. Sounds like bullshit.
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  5.  @historyandhorseplaying7374  was your house inside a secure CIA compound?
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  6. Ration shops?
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  7. They hardly "saved the world", they were both blundering idiots who almost touched off a nuclear holocaust with their escalations and posturing.
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  8. Threads was lame
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  9. @waverider227  what are you babbling about? On second thought, don't bother I am confident it won't be worth the time or effort.
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  10.  @waverider227  ...
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  11. @waverider227  I did say don't bother as I was sure you wouldn't be worth the time or effort. Then you make not one but three replies which is just a little pathetic. Please stop wasting my bandwidth.
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  12.  @waverider227  I was very nice and even said please. Yet you are still wasting my bandwidth. Why? You have nothing important to say.
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  13. ​ @noname-uf4je  I cannot remember the source but there was a noted tendency for most Soviet enterprises to actually have productivity and other stats decline after computerization as it reduced the ability of managers to fudge the numbers
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  14. You mean they recycled the same urban myths from the Vietnam war? Frank Lucas was a liar and a braggart.
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  15. Old people dying of cancer? Not much of a coinkidink champ.
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  16. No, it was major a failure of the Soviet system which exacerbated their demographic issues.
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  17. Is the cod population that important? Maybe they should stop fishing if they are worried about the cod.
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  18. Your mother embellished that story.
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  19. Perhaps it is the opposite of the Dunning-Kruger Effect? He knows enough to get an idea of how much he doesn't know.
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  20.  @evil993  because no one actually knows whether a limited exchange can be contained or if escalation would be inevitable. If you think it is absolutely certain that an American President is going to cause American cities to burn instead of leaving Europe then you have not thought about it long enough.There is a reason why Seven Days to the River Rhine left nuclear states off the target list.
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