> How old are you? 30s > My younger friends who missed being alive during the real fear of Russia/Communism often say exactly what you said. That fear was mo

> How old are you? 30s > My younger friends who missed being alive during the real fear of Russia/Communism often say exactly what you said. That fear was mongered. Socialist ideology is there to help the workers: only capitalists have to fear it. It's not worked out well, even for many workers -- I blame that on a bad (highly authoritarian) route to implement socialist ideals, not on those ideal by themselves. Capitalists made the US workers afraid of commies, because they saw it as a thread. You've been fooled. > at the time the spread of Russian communism was a real and valid fear Seriously? I call it an unfounded and irrational fear, mongered by super wealthy (that were really afraid to have "their" assets seized by the workers). Valid? Not for the working class. > Your TLDR is seems to say ignore history and believe the very simplistic view of a war mongering US. If wars were only that simple, they could probably be avoided. No! I advocate not to watch this doc because it is a waste of your time. Nothing new is there. And it does say "US was evil, lets learn from it and do not do it again" -- which I believe in the current geo-political mess it the right think to do. (Yes I'm talking to you: ALL RECENT US PRESIDENTS) How can you justify the US has not been war mogenring recently. I see huge military (they call it defense, lol) budgets. I see no WMDs in Iraq, no danger for the US in Libya, no danger for the US Afgan/Iran/Syria. These are not peace missions. People die and US seems to make it worse. Gadaffi->Isis; Saddam->Isis; Assad->Isis. And now aggression to NK. Have some restraint, c'mon! > If only the US knew then that it would basically win a culture victory barely ~20 years later. Please explain this, and how it matters to the discussion.