I also understand "soft on communism" was the battle cry for a half
century but it brought us 50 years of cold war, 2 major wars and a
number of other little wars. It bankrupted the Soviets and drove our
debt until the bailouts finally surpassed it. That is the main reason
fir the growth of the military industrial complex and why we are
creeping up on a trillion dollar DoD budget.
I know there are people who think history was the only way it could
ever be but being a real free thinker with intellectual curiosity I
have to ask if things could have gone better with wiser decisions at
the top.
The nature of communism changed almost immediately after WWII. It was no
longer a bastion of hope for the poor and disadvantaged.
Stalin demonstrated his desire for global domination, a fact that
Churchill, Truman and others were keenly aware of. The Soviet Union
successfully tested their A-bomb in 1949, mainly thanks to the
spies they had working at Los Alamos. I can't see that there was any
way to avoid the "cold war" and it's resulting arms race.
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