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🗓️ 6 March 2024
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0:00.0 | During the latter period of the Cold War, American military personnel who were stationed in the United Kingdom were involved in a series of disturbing incidents, during which they reported mysterious interactions with unidentified |
0:14.8 | flying objects. Now as we approach the 40th anniversary of the most infamous of these |
0:20.5 | events we take a look at the Rendelsham Forest incident. So, So, At the outset of the 1980s, the Cold War had been in full swing for over 30 years, but was now entering a frightening new phase. |
1:22.0 | The recent invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet forces |
1:26.0 | had raised tensions between the world's superpowers, taking them to breaking point. |
1:31.6 | It had also been a primary factor in the election of President Ronald Reagan, |
1:36.1 | who had campaigned on a platform which promised to take more direct action against the perceived |
1:40.2 | warmongering of the Soviet Union. |
1:43.0 | At the time of his election victory, Reagan viewed existing US foreign policy with open contempt. |
1:51.0 | The incoming president believed that the detente which the two main powers had agreed upon |
1:55.7 | was the main reason that the conflict had yet to be decidedly resolved. |
2:00.9 | He was determined to break the will of his opponent by aggressively escalating the funding and deployment of America's armed forces. |
2:09.0 | Reagan's strategy was bold and had been conceived around the central concept that the already failing |
2:14.6 | Soviet economy would not be able to survive an arms race to match his planned increases in military |
2:19.8 | investment. |
2:22.0 | Its inevitable collapse would hopefully result in the country's population taking to the streets, |
2:27.0 | revolting against their government, and forcing political change to take place across the USSR. Such an undertaking was music to the ears of |
2:36.7 | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who held equally dismissive views of the |
2:40.9 | policies and agreements that her predecessors had put in place. |
2:45.0 | Thatcher was quick to offer her American counterpart carte Blanche to move whatever |
2:50.0 | military resources he deemed necessary across the Atlantic and into mainland Britain, |
2:55.2 | in readiness for a future strike across the English Channel and onto the European continent. |
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