Russia: Waterboarding is for sissies

[Tyrannical]

hunter_alien said:

Tyrannical said:

 

 I know, and it was a horrible thing to hand eastern Europe over to the communists. It was a foolish, foolish, move on FDRs part that set the world up for 40 years of cold war. In fact, we wouldn't have most of the word's problems today if we didn't stop the tanks until we rolled into Moscow.

Which reminds me of a joke I sometimes use in meetings when one side seems too unwilling to compromise.

Listen Stalin, this isn't Yalta. You can't have everything you want.

OMG... thats just stupid :)) My god... run down Moscow with what? ^_^

 

Well, I suppose I could borrow a quote from Civilization, "We back our threats with nuclear weapons", but the simple truth is that the US was at the height of it's millitary power at the end of WWII. Russia as well as the rest of Europe was exhausted. The US's industrial base and population base was untouched during the war. If the US said to Russia, no you may not have eastern Europe nor may you influence east Asia, Russia could do nothing to stop it.