The cold war didn't kill many Americans, it was mostly about Americans killing Latin Americans or Koreans or Vietnamese or Laotians or Cambodians either directl

The cold war didn't kill many Americans, it was mostly about Americans killing Latin Americans or Koreans or Vietnamese or Laotians or Cambodians either directly by napalm or by puppet dictators that were installed after CIA-backed coups, such as the original 9/11: the 9/11/1973 coup against President Allende of Chile (or 1953 Iran or 1954 Guatemala or 1964 Brazil). The Russians weren't in Cuba for no reason, we were in their backyard before they started their attempts to close the "doomsday gap" (quoting that term from Dr. Strangelove). Quoting Blum: Let's also not forget that Eastern Europe became communist because Hitler, with the approval of the West, used it as a highway to reach the Soviet Union to wipe out Bolshevism forever, and that the Russians in World War I and II, lost about 40 million people because the West had used this highway to invade Russia. It should not be surprising that after World War II the Soviet Union was determined to close down the highway.