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Then the PM messed up and begged the Politburo for intervention, which took three months to decide.
While I think this is technically speaking correct, I would point out the long-standing Russian ambition to obtain reliable access to blue-water ports. In this case in the Indian Ocean. India was neutral-in-Soviet-favour during much of the Cold War, while revolutionary Iran was anti-US (or the US was anti-revolutionary Iran, take your pick) and therefore by the binary logic of the Cold War more or less pro-Soviet
If that is actually the case and has merit, then I cannot think of an act of aggression since Peter the Great.
Finland 1940/41. Baltics 1940. Arguably Hungary 1956. I don't remember off the top of my head who started the Crimean War, but IIRC Russia didn't come out of that looking particularly saintly.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
The overall picture would not be dissimilar to the encirclement of China by US client states (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) during the Cold War, except that Pakistan would be in a much less favourable position than China on account of not being a great power in their own right.
Russian and Eastern European Studies was my undergrad degree but that was a looong time ago (although exciting in the mid-90s). So I am racking my brian for facts and beating my forehead with the palm of my hand knowing that I remember something but that it is on the tip of my tongue.
goes for your posts below, too "Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"
Sorry guys, brain fart "Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"
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