{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Reminder that my take is we should take the Cold War Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact as just one more example in a multi-millennial...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/668601846153281536/", "html": "<p>Reminder that my take is we should take the Cold War Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact as just one more example in a multi-millennial history of &ldquo;if someone manages to unite the eastern plains tribes into a coherent federation they&rsquo;ll be able to use massed cavalry to take over Central Europe and threaten west until they collapse from internal tensions&rdquo;</p>"}