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Is that a bad thing when you look at the alternatives?
Yes, it is a bad thing because it is not true that the US was always good in its interactions with the rest of the world. You need both the good and the bad, imo.
Is that a bad thing when you look at the alternatives?
Just a guess as to what that's all about. A good number of Americans believe we would have stayed out of the proxy wars....obviously then allowing The USSR and communist friends to take over the world, these people always seem to leave out the last part.
Just a guess as to what that's all about. A good number of Americans believe we would have stayed out of the proxy wars....obviously then allowing The USSR and communist friends to take over the world, these people always seem to leave out the last part.
The USSR was never powerful enough for that. Not even close.
All we have to do is look at the interventions the USSR tried where the U.S. had less involvement. Angola and Guinea-Bissau come to mind as examples. Afghanistan would be the most famous example of the USSR's very own precious quagmire they did not want to let go of.
Not to mention the PR debacles they suffered from repression in Hungary & Czechoslovakia, which hurt the reputation of the USSR not only among the capitalist world, but more consequentially, among their sympathizers. The damage they did in the 1960s among people who might otherwise have sympathized with their socio-political goals was arguably a turning point in the Cold War.
Hell, North Vietnam got what they wanted out of the Vietnam conflict, and look how that has turned out.
The USSR was never powerful enough for that. Not even close.
All we have to do is look at the interventions the USSR tried where the U.S. had less involvement. Angola and Guinea-Bissau come to mind as examples. Afghanistan would be the most famous example of the USSR's very own precious quagmire they did not want to let go of.
Not to mention the PR debacles they suffered from repression in Hungary & Czechoslovakia, which hurt the reputation of the USSR not only among the capitalist world, but more consequentially, among their sympathizers. The damage they did in the 1960s among people who might otherwise have sympathized with their socio-political goals was arguably a turning point in the Cold War.
Hell, North Vietnam got what they wanted out of the Vietnam conflict, and look how that has turned out.
Wow. I literally laughed out loud reading your two step above.
I guess you forgot about Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua?
I'm not much of a wiki fan but this paints a much more clear pic of Soviet reach than your whitewash above.
Those 3 were home-grown communist revolutions / civil wars.
I specified Soviet foreign interventions where they sent troops or "advisors."
.....and beside the point in each case.
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