And - not to beat a dead horse, but - your elaboration on Tomahawk/Carter/SAC, during the late '70s, really exposes the utter idiocy then (and indeed throught the Cold War) in play. With Trident-MIRVs already deployed by the hundreds throughout the world's oceans - on the quietest, most successful submarines of all time, no less - WTF possible need could there ever have been to further "...flood Russia with (cruise missiles so they wouldn't) have enough planes to shoot all of them down."?!! What the hell: SLBMs alone - not to mention all the SAC ICBMs - were already sufficient to flood Soviet airspace and impossible to shoot down! Add to that all the nuclear bombers - both USAF and from USN carriers - and you start to see just how truly ridiculous the "argument" for Strategic Cruise Missiles had become...
It was at about this same time that - incredibly, apparently for the first time ever - some scientists calculated what kind of fires would be started by such an all-out nuclear exchange - and concluded that the resultant Nuclear Winter would starve to death about half of everybody in the Northern Hemisphere (at least)! I suspect this was a major turning point - not for the Washington nor Wall Street crazies, who remain hopeless to this day, but - for Soviet leaders, who were prompted to consider decision to just "Fu** all This Sh** - it's Not Worth It!". The Only way to Win is: Not to Play.
Oh and just one more mini-rant (within my Uber-Rant 
) - this regarding Jimmy Carter: At the same time as the above circus, Carter delivered his odious and infamous "American Malaise" address - wherein he, practically in the same breath both acknowleged the killings of JFK, MLK, horrors of Vietnam, etc. - and yet had the balls to blame the American People for their "crisis of confidence" in USGovt! With of course no acknowlegement of his role in it - and responsibility to EARN back a JUSTIFIED public confidence. With the Founding Documents of the USA continuing - then as now, and always - to remain crystal clear on what The American People are obigated to do, whenever their government (continually) fails to meet its responsibilities...
Indeed, in the very same summer of 1979 - as Carter gave his Broke-Di**-Sapper speech - his CIA was instituting a new organization, designed to give the Soviets "their own Vietnam", in Afghanistan: the Muslim Terrorist Muja-Hideen. With their Bag-Man, to reliably launder/deliver the ever-important (black-budget) cash - for weapons, vehicles and other equipment, etc. - being a Saudi oligarch: one OSAMMA BIN LADEN. (Thanks, Jimmy!)
The rest is, as they say, History - much of which the American People still have not learned, and/or continue to refuse to look upon, honestly, to this day. This is how It Ends - this is how You Lose it All...
Cheers,
- Matty
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