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Originally Posted by Kizzy
'in the case of the Cold War, through deterrence may have helped promote stability, it did not create genuine peace. The last forty years in Europe have seen merely the absence of war, which has not been real peace but a facsimile founded dear. At best, building arms to maintain peace serves only as a temporary measure. As long as adversaries do not trust each other, any number of factors can upset the balance of power. Lasting peace can assure secured only on the basis of genuine trust.'
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Lasting peace is just unrealistic though without a deterrent and belongs in the fairytale Corbynite dream land.We have been on the brink of WW3 a number of times during the Cold War.The only thing that stopped it happening was the fact that nuclear weapons exist.Nobody wanted to be responsible for armageddon.Like it or not,Nuclear weapons are the main reason we have peace between the super power nations.Europe would have been a bloody battle ground again without them.It's a lovely idea that all nations can get along in a big fluffy fairytale but it is not in human nature.Trident is at work every day keeping us safer.The fact that we don't have to use it is exactly its purpose.
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