From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

John Beamish wrote:
> My second sentence was rather poorly worded.  I'll try again:
>
> It's only regional for the first two nukes.  There are almost certainly
> as many mutual defence pacts between middle East nations and the US or
> Russia today as there were between European nations before WWI.  There's
> a scene in, I believe, "Oh! What a lovely war" where the
mutual defence
> pacts are brought into play as countries move about on a chessboard.
>

No mutual defence pacts since they all collapsed in the 50'es.

Adam

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