"The Cold War Jim, when the Soviet Block [sic] planned and trained to invade us and we trained and planned to try and stop them."

Absolute mythology. Laughable bullshit. There was never any evidence that the Soviet bloc intended to invade us. They were way too weak militarily for a start and they knew it. And so did we, but the Thatcher/Reagan axis wasn't telling. It was a 1984-style Orwellian lie intended to keep us onside.