Cruise was ace it won the Cold War.
It was the Western system the USSR couldn't counter. Which meant they lost the arms race, peace and democracy for all!
Except Georgia and Bylerousse.
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Quote: DaButt @ August 31 2008, 5:24 PM BST(With a built-in technical support call center.)
They're buggered then, you can never understand a bloody thing they're saying.
Quote: DaButt @ August 31 2008, 5:29 PM BSTNo, they're sending a spacecraft to the moon. And my company is supporting the launch.
Cool so's China (eventually).
China and Russia on the moon together?
Punch up on the Moon!
Quote: sootyj @ August 31 2008, 5:29 PM BSTCruise was ace it won the Cold War.
It was the Western system the USSR couldn't counter. Which meant they lost the arms race, peace and democracy for all!
Except Georgia and Bylerousse.
Bit more in it than that... but that's the biggest reason I suppose, not a cold war buff unfortunatly.
Vodka and chow mein. Excellent.
Quote: DaButt @ August 31 2008, 5:29 PM BSTNo, they're sending a spacecraft to the moon. And my company is supporting the launch.
Cool, that must be pretty exciting.
Well of course there was.
But Cruise put a constant pressure on the USSR. As long as it was on the UK, Germany and in the sea, and on Stealth Bombers. It meant that the West could destroy 90% of Russian nukes with out warning.
With out US involvement USSR would have rolled over Western Europe in the 50s.
Quote: sootyj @ August 31 2008, 5:36 PM BSTWith out US involvement USSR would have rolled over Western Europe in the 50s.
It could have been ugly. The Cold War sucked, but at least all parties involved remembered the Golden Rule of the Nuclear Age: The U.S. and Russia/USSR shall not engage in all-out warfare. Nobody wins and everybody loses.