
Originally Posted by
rossmum
The US gave SAMs to the Muj and taught them how to use them, too. The US and UK supplied Iraq with the means to make WMDs decades ago, the bulk of Iran's modern fighters were supplied by the US before the current government took over. Then I could go ahead and point out that both South Korea and South Vietnam were, at the times of the relevant wars, both equally as bad as their northern counterparts. They were horrible shitty dictatorships with abhorrent attitudes towards human rights, but the US propped them up because they were staunchly anti-Communist. None of these conflicts had jack fucking shit to do with the Western world, either - they were largely on the Soviets' doorstep, not ours. Furthermore all of this bullshit happened, along with South America and Africa, because of sheer bloody-minded ignorance on the part of Western governments which made less than no effort to understand why the Soviets behaved in the manners they did, or to change their attitude once Stalin died, or to stop idiotic pieces of fucking filth like McCarthy from fucking over US citizens just because someone didn't like them and made them out to be 'a bit red'.
The entire Cold War was entirely avoidable and the single biggest example of human stupidity I can think of offhand. We came within a hair's breadth of nuking the planet to ash on several occasions just because nobody wanted to sit the fuck down and work out what was going on. The USSR never had any intent to invade or even incite Communist upriisng in Western Europe, just as the US wouldn't have invaded Soviet territory without first being provoked. Anyone who honestly believes there were good guys and bad guys during the Cold War is a fucking idiot.
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