I lived through the Cold War, serving 32 years in the Army.
Your statement that “The success of the effort to contain communism is questionable.” Is ridiculous, if you are old enough to understand that the goal of communism was “world domination”, you would see this.
I watched Kruschev’s “We will bury you” speech on TV. I did the “duck and cover” through grade school.
You had to be there, Son! Your knowledge is based on the revisionist history, written by the liberal “intellectuals” who backed the losing side.
“I lived through the Cold War, serving 32 years in the Army.”
I’m glad you decided to spend the years in the military. I didn’t spend all 33 of mine active, just 21. But I shifted over to NAF and then later Appropriate continuing my training of troops in the 35 Lima career field from combatives to NBC and tactics. I retired completely, medically, in 2012. And with the splits in service for schooling, I was in on Vietnam to the terrorist actions of today until my forced retirement.
“The success of the effort to contain communism is questionable.”
That statement was for another poster when he was talking about the controlling of Russia and it’s socialist efforts which many people understand as communist. Obviously, Russia has not wavered in its efforts to stretch the world domination it is trying to gain. Their distribution of weapons to many of the middle eastern countries, and their work with other questionable countries like Germany and South Korea are an example of their efforts to continue the movement of their agenda.
Their “communism” hasn’t grown near as much as it has learned to work within the system. They are not trying to dominate countries anymore. They are trying to coerce countries into seeing their point of view and assisting them in doing the work they were supposed to do in the 60’s. Little different tact. They aren’t trying to appear to be the bullies like they used to. Kind of like flies/honey/vinegar. And they are more effective in their way of using countries rather than threatening them to do what the Soviets at that time demanded.
Brave new world. In some ways better, others worse. Makes it hard to blame people for who did what like no one seems to know who gassed the Syrian rebels. Or are, at least, admitting to it to include us.
rwood