When did the Cold War end? ( Archived) (10)

Nov 21, 2010 10:23 AM CST When did the Cold War end?
It didn't! It merely evolved from bullying, threatening, oneupsmanship, ICBM's, Anti Ballistic Missles, to merchandising.
Eisenhower would be staring us in the face and saying, "I tried to warn you, but you didn't listen."

Have you ever wondered where al-Shabab in Somalia got all those AK47's? Or where the Taliban got theirs? Ever wonder where the C4 high explosives used in suicide vests come from? Or where the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone got their weapons?





Now we know.
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Nov 21, 2010 12:55 PM CST When did the Cold War end?
Elmorya
ElmoryaElmoryaMidrand, Gauteng South Africa5 Threads 484 Posts
Tks; Always wondered about the sudden availability of AKs popping up all over!
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Nov 21, 2010 12:56 PM CST When did the Cold War end?
Ladybee42
Ladybee42Ladybee42East Liverpool, Ohio USA4 Threads 1,316 Posts
perhaps in the WARM summer of 1991

grin
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Nov 21, 2010 1:00 PM CST When did the Cold War end?
Steve5721
Steve5721Steve5721La Zenia, Murcia Spain72 Threads 2 Polls 4,564 Posts
Elmorya: Tks; Always wondered about the sudden availability of AKs popping up all over!


They are actually also made outside of Russia by quite a few countries but small variants, mainly in their names and freely available for purchase in the USA!
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Nov 21, 2010 1:05 PM CST When did the Cold War end?
Elmorya: Tks; Always wondered about the sudden availability of AKs popping up all over!


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Nov 21, 2010 1:41 PM CST When did the Cold War end?
NCC1968
NCC1968NCC1968Van Nuys, California USA3 Threads 3 Polls 839 Posts
You all know the saying about teaching a man to fish...


I've told people that if you go and kill for someone you sovle their immediate threat, but if you train them to kill they can kill for a lifetime.....maybe even come kill you.

Some of what was accomplished on 9/11 is our own doingfrustrated
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Nov 21, 2010 1:49 PM CST When did the Cold War end?
solitare
solitaresolitareBariloche, Rio Negro Argentina40 Threads 4,041 Posts
Thread: When did the Cold War end?



Ummm, I thought this was about marriages...the Cold War ends when he finds someone else...and divorces her , ahh well, so many types of cold wars...laugh
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Nov 21, 2010 1:55 PM CST When did the Cold War end?
solitare: Thread: When did the Cold War end?
Ummm, I thought this was about marriages...the Cold War ends when he finds someone else...and divorces her , ahh well, so many types of cold wars...


You mean that this is not a war of the seasons? dunno

With winter around the corner...it's just started once again. grin
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Nov 22, 2010 5:43 AM CST When did the Cold War end?
ttom500
ttom500ttom500St. Cloud, Florida USA30 Threads 5 Polls 10,523 Posts
Ooby, the thing you are missing here...is why Russia call's Bout extradiction "illegal" and that he is merely a 'Russian Business man that should be back in Moscow'.

That goes to how he has getting the weapons from Russian armories and weapons makers. Bout knows were all the bodies are buried and who all the players are in modern Russia weapons sales, is my thought. I bet he has a copy of his of supplier list in some bank vault for safe keeping and a time like this.

The closer he comes to US sentencing to the weapon charges....the price of the list to FED authorites is going to take a nose dive.....grin
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Nov 22, 2010 8:59 AM CST When did the Cold War end?
ttom500: Ooby, the thing you are missing here...is why Russia call's Bout extradiction "illegal" and that he is merely a 'Russian Business man that should be back in Moscow'.

That goes to how he has getting the weapons from Russian armories and weapons makers. Bout knows were all the bodies are buried and who all the players are in modern Russia weapons sales, is my thought. I bet he has a copy of his of supplier list in some bank vault for safe keeping and a time like this.

The closer he comes to US sentencing to the weapon charges....the price of the list to FED authorites is going to take a nose dive.....
I'm not missing a thing Tom. I already know what the outcome of this guys near term future will be. He will go to trial, be found guilty, sentenced to a long prison stay, and be traded to Russia for one of our spys before he serves a month in jail. Or he'll be killed in prison.
It's business as usual.
The point I was making is that the cold war never did end it just moved from the battlefield and world of James Bond to the corporate boardrooms.
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