You do not have to go that far back.. I remember the liberals and the internationalist Rockefeller Republicans demanding that we help build the Soviet economy.
If we refuse to help the Soviets we'll be playing into the hands of the hard-liners in the Kremlin, there will be war, and it will be our fault.
In those days there were enough left from the Greatest Generation who knew better and they said, No.
Why doesn’t that shock me? I do remember the trouble Reagan ran into trying to take out the U.S.S.R. It’s amazing the the sell-outs within isn’t it.