X-Git-Url: https://git.njae.me.uk/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=2019%2F8b.plaintext;fp=2019%2F8b.plaintext;h=1d7506a9edd6fc61772cccfdcfdc58674f95c221;hb=1c711fcaa683414ec34bea0ea29269483f498343;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=3ee00aa6e241bad0efe7ec600c26bdbfda2a2c00;p=cipher-tools.git diff --git a/2019/8b.plaintext b/2019/8b.plaintext new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d7506a --- /dev/null +++ b/2019/8b.plaintext @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +if the death of our son in korea taught me anything it is that our efforts to contain the soviets by +proxy wars is doomed as my loathing of the soviet empire was stoked by his death the ussr feeds on +the anger that we stir up with each war we fight in its puppet states we have tried to contain it +but i now realise that we can only defeat it the way we fought fascism by taking on its might in +open war our politicians have shrunk from the conflict and they need a reason to confront the evil +even the threat of nuclear missiles based in cuba did not give them the mettle to fight instead they +have convinced themselves that the mad doctrine of mutually assured destruction will protect us and +that peace can be maintained under the shelter of the nuclear umbrella they do not seem to see that +the longer we cower in this shadow the more the two sides will invest in these awful weapons before +long it will be impossible to fight at all without the threat of total annihilation and when that +day comes we will all be enslaved by whoever is more ruthless lose and we will be the slaves the +price of winning might be worse at first i hoped that the space race would help us turning the +missiles from weapons of war to carriers of peace and kennedy seemed to have that in mind when he +set his program to landon the moon by winning the space race the administration hoped to establish +the supremacy of the capitalist system over communism cowing our enemies and setting our hearts and +minds on the conquest of a new frontier but brezhnev seems undeterred and even before the launch of +apollo xi the american public is beginning to get bored the threat of nuclear war is rising and the +peace protests which are intended to prevent it are encouraging our enemies to believe that they can +win war is unavoidable to survive it we must fight it now on our own terms before the nuclear +arsenals grow too powerful if our leaders will not act of their own volition then i will provoke the +required confrontation i will convince them that the russians have sabotaged the lunar program and +killed or attempted to kill our astronauts the russians will never be able to prove that they are +innocent and our politicians and generals will be forced to strike back the russians will escalate +in order to not look weak and once they have committed themselves there will be no turning back the +unavoidable war will have to be fought to its conclusion \ No newline at end of file