Do you remember the 'peace dividend' at the end of the Cold War? The neutering of the Soviet threat was used as the excuse for dramatically cutting the defence budgets of the western alliance. It became the modern day equivalent of beating swords into ploughshares. The threat was over and billions of pounds, dollars, francs and deutschmarks...
Posted on The Waendel Journal.
Monday, 6 October 2008
Move along please, nothing to see here
