Beats Quote by Tom Clancy

If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces.

— Sergey Akhromeyev

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We ran them…

— John Mearsheimer

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that…

— Gerd von Rundstedt

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

— Charles de Gaulle

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There was obviously never any help from the Russians. I don't even know what the Russians would have done.

— Brad Parscale

The second touchstone for America I think unquestionably was pushing to conclusion the program we had with the Russians to control the Soviet nuclear…

— Michael Scheuer

The Russians had got a real head-start into space; America was playing catch-up.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“The umbrella assertion made by Team B—and the most inflammatory—was that the previous National Intelligence Estimates “substantially misperceived the motivations behind Soviet strategic programs,…

— Rachel Maddow

“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank forces- if…

— Alan Clark

I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying…

— Ralph Boston