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Twilight Struggle: Cold War Lessons for US-China Today

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Is the Cold War a Cold War?

In 19 forty five, the united states had half of global production because the rest of the world had been destroyed in world war too. And so i think you can make the argument that, so long as the western world held together, it was going to win in the end,. But it wasn't given that the western world would hold together. I mean, the western world could have fallen apart in the late 19 forties if you had had economic collapse in western europe and a bunch of communist parties come to power. So no matter how rich and powerful and attractive you are, there are still going to come these critic junctures where it takes good, bold decision making, or prudent

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