I’m not sure if I’m following you (sorry, in the middle of an all nighter).
you asked “what the hell” we were afraid of in the cold war. The post shows what we were afraid of , per another Paul supporter, that “half the world would be laid waste.” There were a lot of people at the time who, like you, didn’t believe that the soviets were a threat at all.In fact, much like the implication of Paul supporters, or as it seems to me, it was the U.S. that was the main threat to world peace. Paul, at least according to this post, wasn’t one of them.