Talk:Andrei Cherny/@comment-170.213.2.220-20170522191830

Andrei I just checked out your book #the Candy Bombers" so I don't know what you wrote except the blurb on the cover. Seems like a good book of the Berlin Airlift. I don't know if it was America's Finest Hour, but it was certainly America's first victory in the Cold War.    I do believe Eisenhower would have handled it differently.Since the blockade was an act of war,being a direct violation of the Potsdam treaty signed by the Soviet Union, it was a time for the U.S. to play what became known as nuclear brinkmentship in the 1950's. Eisenhower would have threaten Stalin with nuclear bombing unless they lifted the embargo and let the trains go to West Germany to West Berlin, as guaranteed by the Potsdam treaty. Since the Soviet Union was known to not have a nuclear bomb it would not have been as dangerous as it became 2 years later. This would have given the communists all they wanted to know. Which was how far could they push or bully the West.Since that is what the soviets were up to. Or as their leader Lenin told them keep pushing until you run into steel, then they always backed down. Just food for thought. Believe that ISIS is finding out the hard way (the only way fanatics like that learn anything) the USA has a new leader that is going to "fight fire with Fire" and if we have to exterminate ISIS, then that is what we are going to have to do. To assure the success and prosperity of the free world, as JFK would have put it. Take care, Dan Hargreaves