Sucks for them. Have to look at the time though. It was an ideological struggle and the Soviets were trying to spread their ideology everywhere. Of course, we had to counter them. The world was very different in 1950 and communism was a fad.
Problem is that you’re comparing two different situations. Too many misguided individuals think we’re still fighting the Soviets. That’s dead. The real enemy is Red China and the Globalist Derp State. It isn’t Russia.
We need to be taking down the globalists and hemming in Red China. We need the help of Russia to do the latter, not trying to poke them to start a nuclear war, which will only benefit Red China.