The political-cultural war obscured the central truth of neoliberalism: Blue America overwhelmingly won an economic war ironically thanks to the way Reagan set up the post-Nixonian economic chessboard.
I read the book.... My read is that the MP flipped the switch turning a potential CW into an actual one. Stalin bluffed, Marshall called the bluff by forking West Germany, and the currency conflict in Berlin during the siege officially launched the actual Cold War.
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Ie there was a small but nonzero chance of a non-Cold-War future if MP hadn’t been unilaterally rolled out. Even despite Stalin’s bad faith dealings post-Potsdam.
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The siege may have had a lot to do with it
Also Iran, breaking agreements in regard to the Polish elections. Stalin was also blamed for the Greek civil war but that was in truth mostly Tito’s doing against Stalin’s advice -
In a nutshell, Stalin insisted on Eastern Europe not just as a security zone (which Stimson could live with) but fully communized satellites, unlike with Finland. We couldn’t live with that. Or rather we could but refused to subsidize it
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