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NATO encouraged the countries around the periphery of USSR like Turkey Iran Pakistan China Japan to adopt a more belligerent attitude towards USSR in the 1945-1980 period.And West would use the nuclear umbrella to protect these countries from Soviet nukes ? At the same time dragging the soviets in dozens of smaller localized conflicts
Think of rerun of Russo ottoman ,Persian , Japan wars of 16th to 20th century , plus a resurgent China with full western backing
Constant localized conventional conflicts would totally exhaust USSR much sooner
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