Post by PeterB on Aug 28, 2010 8:53:07 GMT -4
Rodin said at reply #298 of the Apollo jump proves hoax by rodin thread:
Let's do that.
I have a boardgame here called Twilight Struggle. It's a two player game about the Cold War, published by GMT Games. If you have the slightest interest in boardgames and the Cold War, I highly recommend it. It's not only a cracker of a game, it even includes the Space Race!
Now although it's a boardgame, game play itself is driven by the play of cards. The cards represent events which actually took place during the period 1945 to 1989. I'm going to list a portion of them, and if Rodin returns to the board, I'd like him to consider how to explain these events except in the context of a real geopolitical struggle between the USA and the USSR.
Early War:
- Vietnam revolts;
- Marshall Plan (and Soviet refusal to allow East European countries to participate);
- Suez Crisis;
- Korean War;
- Truman Doctrine;
- Nasser;
- The Chinese Civil War;
- Berlin Blockade;
- Arab-Israeli War;
- Defectors;
- East European unrest;
- Warsaw Pact formed;
- Red Scare/Purge;
- Formosan Resolution;
- The Cambridge Five;
- Fidel;
- Comecon;
- Independent Reds (e.g. Yugoslavia);
- Indo-Pakistani War.
Mid War:
- Latin American Death Squads;
- Ussuri River skirmish;
- U2 incident;
- Cultural Revolution;
- Liberation Theology;
- Allende;
- Arms Race;
- Che;
- Cuban Missile Crisis;
- Nuclear Subs;
- "We will bury you!";
- Brezhnev Doctrine;
- John Paul II elected Pope;
- Kitchen debates;
- Sadat expels Soviets.
Late War:
- Iranian hostage crisis;
- Star Wars;
- Soviets shoot down KAL007;
- Ortega elected in Nicaragua;
- Iran-Contra scandal;
- Tear down this Wall;
- An Evil Empire;
- Aldrich Ames;
- Pershing II deployed;
- Solidarity (Poland).
Now I shouldn't have to answer any questions to explain what any of these events mean. If Rodin doesn't know what they mean, then it shows he doesn't know as much about the Cold War as he thinks he did, and he should therefore research them before commenting.
If the Cold War was fake, why was it so easy to cross borders between various West European countries, but Eastern Europe was separated from the West by an extensive barrier of barbed wire, walls, minefields and armed guards ordered to shoot?
The Cold War itself was a total hoax - of this I am sure - and by implication so was the Space Race. We can run a thread on this if you like.
Let's do that.
I have a boardgame here called Twilight Struggle. It's a two player game about the Cold War, published by GMT Games. If you have the slightest interest in boardgames and the Cold War, I highly recommend it. It's not only a cracker of a game, it even includes the Space Race!
Now although it's a boardgame, game play itself is driven by the play of cards. The cards represent events which actually took place during the period 1945 to 1989. I'm going to list a portion of them, and if Rodin returns to the board, I'd like him to consider how to explain these events except in the context of a real geopolitical struggle between the USA and the USSR.
Early War:
- Vietnam revolts;
- Marshall Plan (and Soviet refusal to allow East European countries to participate);
- Suez Crisis;
- Korean War;
- Truman Doctrine;
- Nasser;
- The Chinese Civil War;
- Berlin Blockade;
- Arab-Israeli War;
- Defectors;
- East European unrest;
- Warsaw Pact formed;
- Red Scare/Purge;
- Formosan Resolution;
- The Cambridge Five;
- Fidel;
- Comecon;
- Independent Reds (e.g. Yugoslavia);
- Indo-Pakistani War.
Mid War:
- Latin American Death Squads;
- Ussuri River skirmish;
- U2 incident;
- Cultural Revolution;
- Liberation Theology;
- Allende;
- Arms Race;
- Che;
- Cuban Missile Crisis;
- Nuclear Subs;
- "We will bury you!";
- Brezhnev Doctrine;
- John Paul II elected Pope;
- Kitchen debates;
- Sadat expels Soviets.
Late War:
- Iranian hostage crisis;
- Star Wars;
- Soviets shoot down KAL007;
- Ortega elected in Nicaragua;
- Iran-Contra scandal;
- Tear down this Wall;
- An Evil Empire;
- Aldrich Ames;
- Pershing II deployed;
- Solidarity (Poland).
Now I shouldn't have to answer any questions to explain what any of these events mean. If Rodin doesn't know what they mean, then it shows he doesn't know as much about the Cold War as he thinks he did, and he should therefore research them before commenting.
If the Cold War was fake, why was it so easy to cross borders between various West European countries, but Eastern Europe was separated from the West by an extensive barrier of barbed wire, walls, minefields and armed guards ordered to shoot?