Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008
From: "Raymond Smith" <ray.smith531@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2008-#221-Johnson's Russia List/Washington Post editorial
Imagine an alternate universe in which the Soviet Union still exists, NATO has collapsed and Canada and Mexico want to join the Warsaw Pact. To American expressions of concern, the Soviet leader replies, "Don't worry, this is not directed against you. Oh, and by the way, we are worried that one of the Latin American nations might launch a missile attack against one or our allies, so we are putting a missile defense system into Cuba."