re: #160 Buck

Many don’t think that MAD works on these guys. A group that has sent children on suicide waves during a war probably doesn’t think that sacrificing their own people is much of an issue.

The USSR leadership were a completely different kind of crazy.

There is and was ample historical evidence that the USSR leadership were willing, and in some cases, actively motivated to, sacrifice their own people. I don’t know if we’re whitewashing the Sovs now, or building up the Iranians, but…