Maybe so, but an alternative interpretation is that a crisis changes the paradigm and requires different behavior.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In the four years of Mikhail Gorbachev's rule (including in recent months), there have been a number of features of Soviet foreign and defense policy that are difficult to reconcile with the optimistic Western paradigm for explaining Gorbachev's rule and future Soviet behavior.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The New Soviet Challenge