Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.
Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.
Where were they when the Russians went down?
At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.