=== The trick is to wake OUR people up and expose the phony "collapse" of the Soviet Union.
Sorry ... won't happen.
Americans are like dogs with a bone when it comes to clinging to those Black and White perpetual conflicts which make international politics so much easier to understand and predict. Sino-Soviet, Israeli-Arab ... uh .... uhmmm ... French-English, German-Pole?
The only thing of which it's even less likely to disabuse them is a Hollywood blockbuster ending like the fall of the Wall or pulling out ALL the stops -- a Polish Pope and Catholic lingo and everything! -- as Solidarity signals the start of Perestroika.
"Americans are like dogs with a bone when it comes to clinging to those Black and White perpetual conflicts which make international politics so much easier to understand and predict. Sino-Soviet, Israeli-Arab ... uh .... uhmmm ... French-English, German-Pole?"
You misunderstood me. I said "our people" not you "average American." All we need is to wake up a number about the same size as our enemies (1-3% of the population). These are the people who will save the people caught in the middle (most of which will side with whichever side appears to be winning).