Word: eurasia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dangerous for the free world for the simple reason that the West has based its defense on nuclear weapons: "Nowhere in the Western world are there sufficient conventional forces to resist the Soviet preponderance in conventional strength . . . Nothing now stands in the way of Soviet domination of Eurasia save the Soviet reluctance to pay the price of a nuclear...
...Soviets do not see how they could occupy and/or control the U.S. But they do see how their conquest of all Eurasia would leave them at the end of the war in a position vis-à-vis the U.S. better than their present position. It is this vision not Nikita Khrushchev's present position. It is this vision that gives confidence to Russian spokesmen and drive to Russian diplomacy...
...lands around it get little precipitation, and the glaciers in Greenland and northern Canada do not grow. But if the Arctic Ocean were ice-free because of more warm water flowing into it from the south, a great deal of snow would fall on the cold northern interiors of Eurasia and North America, and not all of it would melt in summer. Glaciers would grow and march southward toward New York and Paris...
REDS WANT TO DRIVE U.S. FROM EURASIA...
...other arrangements under which American forces provide a shield for smaller countries are vital to western defense (and to defense only). Meanwhile the western people themselves have to be reminded that the Communist objective is, and was throughout the Malenkov era, nothing less than domination of a Eurasia uncluttered by American presence or American power...