Tellus
Banned
I cant believe anyone here can seriously think going to war with the soviets could ever have been justifiable or desirable. Absent an outright Soviet invasion there was never any impetus for this, and those who say it was about regime change are even further in the wrong. The Soviets had as much a right to communism as we have one to capitalism and democracy. Forcefully changing others governments is not a reasonable goal of war.
We had everything to gain by maintaining peace and everything to lose by going to war. If I had to choose between a POD that causes an early war against the soviet union and another that gave them the power needed to continue to exist today as a major superpower, I would pick the latter without a second of hesitation. They were simply no threat to us unless someone was precisely stupid enough to want to attack them.
We had everything to gain by maintaining peace and everything to lose by going to war. If I had to choose between a POD that causes an early war against the soviet union and another that gave them the power needed to continue to exist today as a major superpower, I would pick the latter without a second of hesitation. They were simply no threat to us unless someone was precisely stupid enough to want to attack them.