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Their choice was entirely reasonable. War is rarely the right answer. It's just kind of silly to portray the American military as "standing up to Stalin" becau
by scarmig 9y ago
Their choice was entirely reasonable. War is rarely the right answer.
It's just kind of silly to portray the American military as "standing up to Stalin" because Americans are taught Stalin equals evil and America equals good and ipso facto America must have stood up to Stalin.
- ninkendo 9y agoI think the west did a pretty good job of standing up to Stalin as much as they could without actually igniting WW3. The cold war ended without any direct conflict between belligerents after all, and the soviet union fell. That is, if you take as a constraint that you don't actually want to start an all-out war, the post-WW2 west stood up to Stalin in probably the best way it possibly could have.