ABMs are no match for multi-head missiles. The current elite consensus has no enduring force. The public – across NATO – will reject another useless arms race. During the Reagan years, Soviet generals would make periodic threats to launch-on-warning.

The most awesome thing about dialectical materialism is its remarkable combination of ignorance and belligerence which assumes they are always on the verge of intimidating the world when they are really cutting their own throats; which posits they are the wave of the future when their eyes are firmly fixed on the past. Khrushchev once said “we will bury you” to America. Beck later wrote, “Soy un perdedor, I’am a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me.” There’s really no contradiction between the two observations.