Oh congrats you were so freightened of nuclear war that you shifted the casualties by having proxy wars in the Middle East and Asia. Also, we’re just gonna ignore the collapse of Yugoslavia?https://twitter.com/NGrossman81/status/1019407228003110912 …
The two are connected. US had to extend its nuclear umbrella through Western Europe to deter Soviet expansion. The alliance and its "attack on one is an attack on all" commitment was key to that.
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But by that standard couldn’t the same praise be extended to the Warsaw Pact? If the argument is simply that conglomerations of power are less likely to be engaged in conflict, that’s correct.
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