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Originally posted by baddog
ummmm, just because it doesn't hit the newspapers does not mean help is not offered.
You may have read in your history books (presuming you actually went to school, and that your history books are not all slanted against the US) that the US and USSR were involved in this thing we used to call the Cold War.
Even so, when the Russians would lose a submarine at the bottom of the ocean, we would offer to help them retrieve it. "No thanks" was always the response.
While the Cold War has ended, it is still a pretty safe bet that Russia does not want US troops within their borders, fighting the Chechens for them. . . . besides, if we did the rest of the world would just call us imperialists anyway.
We can do no right.
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Heard of all that before. And no, the textbooks we had when I was in school were slightly outdated and broad of what they taught. That would of been Grade 9 history though too..
Matt