Chapter 44 The Second Golden Age Chapter Eight Cold War Era

Although Soviet Russia is still trying its best to expand its influence, the goal of world revolution is no longer on its agenda.Even the internal conditions of the Soviet Union itself did not allow it to return to its previous revolutionary traditions.When comparing the threat posed by Germany back then to the Soviet Union today, we must consider ... the fundamental differences.Comparing the two, the possibility of the Russians suddenly bringing catastrophe to the world is definitely far lower than that of Germany before the war. —Frank Roberts, Report of the British Mission in Moscow to the British Foreign Office, London, 1946 (Jensen, 1991, p. 56)

The war economy has created an easy and stable job for many people.Among them are tens of thousands of civil and military bureaucrats. Their daily work content is nothing more than building nuclear weapons and planning nuclear wars.There are also millions of workers whose livelihoods depend on the existence of this nuclear terror industry.There are also scientists and engineers whose task is to find the decisive "technical breakthrough" that can provide a 100% safety guarantee.In addition, there are arms dealers who will never give up their huge war wealth lightly, as well as war experts and scholars who promote their terror theories and advocate the necessity of war.

——Barnett (Richard Barnet, 1981, p. 97)