Exactly....even a suggestion that Vietnam was part of a 'cover up' is ludicrous. Did NASA meet with the Russia and say tell ya what...we'll send thousands of young men (barely out of boyhood) to run around the jungle so that your North Vietnamese pals can cut them down and send them back in boxes. And tell ya what, we'll send a small platoon to Mai Lai to go mad over four days and rape and massacre that village. That's should ensure everyone still believes the world is round so that we all get our space funding!
No, I didn't assert that Russia and the US were cooperating to further the 'RE conspiracy' in these matters alone.
The fact that both sides had an 'enemy' that stood against everything each side stood for is enough to keep both sides in power.
Sure, maybe the Vietnam and Korean wars were to stop the spread of communism, maybe they weren't. I don't know why we sent thousands of Americans overseas to die in jungles and forests.
Additionally, it's kind of like a double standard to interfere with matters in Russia's hemisphere, and not let them in ours.
The idea that Russia is our (America's) sworn mortal enemy, I believe, was fabricated by the west to keep our governments in power.
If there's no one to keep us protected from, then there's no justification for us tyraiding all over the world and inserting our influence.
There are many small governments in the world that don't have huge militaries and don't fear insurrection. Without fear, there is no need for force. This is why the tension between the US and the former USSR was obviously beneficial to both sides.
For the first point, EVERYONE KNOWS. Only YOU DON'T WANT to know, so that you can justify your inhumane, disrespectful and baseless revisions of history and of the obvious truth.
Yes, it was wrong, everybody knows that too, BUT all super-powers to do it. USA had to do it to prevent Russia from becoming capable of seconding USA. I am not American, and I don't support any of USA's far-realist foregin policies of the past or present. But their conflict with USSR was real, you just don't kill millions of people to prove the Earth's shape, maybe it makes sense to FE-ers, but it wouldn't to any sane and rational human being.
USSR WAS USA's sworn enemy, had Stalin had the capability he would have destroyed USA's economy and army to make USSR the sole super-power of the world. He would also destroy USA because Soviets hated USA. If you think the entire philosphy of Soviet Communism and thwe Bolshevik Revolution were part of a conspiracy to stage two super-power enemies to generate force tomake people think the Earth is round then you should get you brain checked, seriously.
Your part about small governments is right, but USA and USSR level super-powers don't need excuse to have an army, when you are at the top of the mountain and have no guard, there will always be entities that would want to take you down.
Sure, the Cold War atmosphere gave them a chace to become super-nuclear war freaks but that armament drive was reversed with the fall of USSR, if USA really wanted to keep all that, it would have done it without giving anyexplantion to the world
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