འ. LULLED BY THE EUPHORIA AND COMPLACENCY OF DETENTE THE UNITED STATES EMPHASISED ON THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF THE NEW-FOUND COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION TH THE SOVIET UNION AND BEGAN TO LAG BEHIND IN THE AREAS OF MILITARY AND STRATEGIC WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT WHILE THE SOVIET UNION PUSHED AHEAD FOR A CLEAR COMPETITIVE EDGE IN THESE AREAS. HOWEVER, THE FINAL. COLLAPSE OF DETENTE WAS ATTRIBUTABLE NOT TO DIFFERENCES ON THE CUESTION OF STRATEGIC BALANCE OR WEAPONRY BETWEEN THE SUPER POWERS FOR SALT 11 WAS CONCLUDED WELL BEFORE THE ABANDONMENT OF DETENTE BUT TO SOVIET INTERVENTION PARTICULARLY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA WHICH WAS
CARRIED OUT LARGELY THROUGH CUBAN SURROGATES AND IN AFGHANISTAN.
RUDELY AWAKENED TO THE FOLLIES OF ITS NAI VETE
ON DETENTE AND ALARMED AT THE DRAMATIC GAINS ACHIEVED BY THE SOVIET UNION IN MILITARY, STRATEGIC AND IDEOLOGICAL TERMS THE UNITED STATES BEGAN THE RACE TO CATCH UP WITH THE SOVIETS DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION, A PROCESS WHICH CONTINUES ON TODAY WITH EVEN GREATER FER VOUR UNDER THE CURRENT REAGAN ADMINISTRATION. JUDGING FROM THE FRENETIC ACTIVITY IN THE UNITED STATES' FOREIGN AND DEFENCE POLICIES IF NOT BY THE RHETORIC EMANATING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE IT WOULD APPEAR THAT DETENTE IS NOW DEAD IF NOT BURIED AND FORGOTTEN.
7. WE ARE THEREFORE WITNESSING THE BEGINNINGS OF A NEW COLD WAR THAT PROMISES TO BE AS CHILL AND AS CHILLING AS THE OLD ONE FRAUGHT WITH EVEN GRAVER RISKS TO WORLD PEACE AND STABILITY.
8.
IF WASHINGTON'S PERCEPTION OF THE SOVIET
UNION IS THAT OF A POWER THAT SEEMED BENT ON TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION THROUGH A PREPONDERANCE IN POLITICAL,
IDEOLOGICAL AND MILITARY TERMS - AN AMORAL EVEN, IMMORAL, FORCE THAT IS IN RELENTLESS PURSUITOF OVER-BEARING AMBITION THE PRECEPTION OF MOSCOW OF THE UNITED STATES IS JUST AS TRUE, INDEED, TO THE AGE ING RULERS IN THE KREMLIN THERE APPEARS TO BE AN EVEN GREATER FEAR OF THE UNPREDICTABILITY AND IRRATIONALITY IN AMERICAN BEHAVIOUR AS EVIDENCED BY ITS INTERVENTIONIST ACTIVITIES IN CENTRAL AMERICA
PANTICULARLY IN EL SALVADOR, CAPPED BY ITS DIRECT INTERVENTION IN GRENADA, IN THE CARRIBEAN.
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