THE OFFICIAL BIRTH OF SUBSIM!!! 1917: Germany declares "a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare"...The game(as we luv it) is on! All
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ers can have the day off...sort of like opening of deer season in Utah. Without the Kaiser's brilliant "politics by other means", there IS no
US
...oh and 1606
: poor Guy Fawkes is executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot against good King James I...his "politics by other means" having failed! 1865: GEN R. E. LEE is appointed General-in-Chief of all Confederate armies...as "politics by other means" are about to fail...1929: Leon Trotsky is
trotted out of the Soviet Union...his "Politics by other means " having failed...They will
fail more in Mexico City when he's
really axed from the party
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1958: The US successfully launches its first satellite into orbit; the Explorer I...move over Comrade Sputnik!;
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1961; NASA launches HAM(what was
he drinkn'?) the CHIMP into orbit for 16.5 minutes of primate glory
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...No monkeying around
now Comrade Sputnik!
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1971: Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blast off for the
moon(ALICE!
) on Apollo 14...game long over Comrade Sputnik
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1990: McDonald's opens it's first fast food restaurant in Moscow...Кетчуп с фри? Move over Napoleon and Adolf...what "politics by other means" is really all about...he who eats last eats best!
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hey! what's on the Soyuz menu today... Comrade Sputnik!?
and thanks for leading the way too!
von Clauscewitz ON WAR: "All warfare is politics by other means"...