Although from the point of view of humanity the nuclear arms race is totally irrational, trom the point of view of US capitalism, it has a logical and functional purpose. Overwhelming muclear superiority by the US serves four crucial purposes:
maintains aconomic siege warfare against the Boviet Union and its While the arms race business in the US, for the USSR the Soviet economy is naplanned and not subject to permanent drain on its resources.
cconomically weaker technologically tar less developed than the LIS. The US has always attempted to economically damage the Sovier Union by controlling exports to the Soviet Union, incloding an embargo on advanced technological goods, through military competition and the use of blackmail over grain al Khrushchev's ramous We statement, warned the a will bust you'.
2) It forestalis the possibility of ducing region.
form of good for volcanic region. - IL ICOTESCHES A In Union and Kingsland Hich Sr. London ES. in 1949.
Garcia is being turned into a fortress by the US. Diego Garcia is within a couple of hours flying time of nearly the whole of the Middle East's oil proThese are just some of the more visible signs of US preparations to go to war against colonial revolution.
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