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I'm not the above commenter, but I imagine this take is not so tinfoil-y. It's due to the Cold War we were experiencing around that time, and the fact that U.S

I'm not the above commenter, but I imagine this take is not so tinfoil-y. It's due to the Cold War we were experiencing around that time, and the fact that U.S. hegemony was only checked by a truly evil force (in its good nature, to be apologist). The USSR would have loved for the United States to end up the same type of place, with many millions dead or permanently interned in camps. I imagine you're younger than to have experienced that type of fear, but it was real fear and a real threat. The questionable and bloody decisions our government made was largely to fight that threat and ensure that wouldn't happen to us.

whydoibother 5y ago
Your comment is so ignorant of history. The US was full of paranoid nutjobs who wanted to nuke everyone. How many millions died directly due to the US govt's horrible policies? Stop acting like we were the good guys, that cold war propaganda doesn't hold up if you look at history. Indonesia, Vietnam, how many countries in SA, and how many covert actions we don't know about. Nothing the USSR did compared to that. Nothing the USSR was doing warranted the US inflicting the horrors we have around the world.