Doverai ni proverai..
Ronnie was so proud of himself! - his first uttered Russian words.. (old Russian saying)
Trust.. but verify.
And fact is / seems to be - there remains enough of that sense between the real pros in US and Russia (indicated by their telling *us* exactly what was broken in the #&*^%&#$ Microsloth db, which was hiding weapons numbers) to use the word 'trust' correctly. Today, anyway. Tomorrow ?? Etc.
No, I can't give you a nice slogan that *proves* we can make any such arrangement utterly idiot-proof. I could.. list a few dozen reasons though, why..
TWO MINUTES = an unimaginably STUPID amount of time before launching the beginnings of what the Rand Corporation dubbed, in the early '60s
Spasm War...
ie after a perhaps two or 3 missiles are enroute or land - we revert to primitive logic, no matter if it can be seen that this logic shall KILL ALL, And *THAT* is precisely the logic ever behind M.A.D. -- which we have survived because so far, not One Insane sub Captain + a few willing accomplices - has er surfaced on either side.
Wanna keep playing that game, as Russia's ability to control its weapons deteriorates every day?
I Don't.
China ditto - dunno the Chinese for doverai, proverai
(Obviously 'reduce' was the exact wrong! word, above. D'Oh.)
