Everything But The Weed

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The United States figured in numerous important wars in its background.  It engaged in war during the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and many others.  However, its most atypical involvement in warfare was in the one identified as “The Cold War.”

The Cold War lasted for many years.  It was called the Cold War as this particular war didn’t have any battlefield nor deployment of troops.  It simply was comprised of hostile silence between the United States and the Soviet Union from the mid-1940s, after World War II, and extended to the early portion of the 1990s.  

The U . S and the Soviet Union were both Allied nations throughout the Second World War, meaning they were joined in fighting common foes, mainly the Axis nations.  Unusually, the hostilities involving the two nations started with the United States’ creation of the atom bomb close to the end of World War II.  Shortly after, the Soviet Union developed its own nuclear weapons.  The immensity of the destructive strength of nuclear bombs gave any nation that possessed them so called ‘superpowers.’  A heightened feeling of distrust came into being between the two nations of the other’s possible mistreatment of their military powers.  They directed their nuclear weapons at each other as a muted menace of retaliation if ever one particular nation made a decision to attack the opposite.

It was a staring competition that lasted almost half a century and created a huge strain on both economies.  Both nations needed to sustain “parity” of their nuclear weapons so neither land got more than the other thus tipping the balance of power and providing one combatant an unfair advantage.  This had been a peculiar logic in that the two nations held adequate weaponry to destroy the earth many times over but nonetheless they insisted on “having parity” through the entire Cold War.

Both countries were quite definitely aware that a nuclear conflict involving them would have resulted in the total destruction of existence on earth and must never be permitted to happen.  It would be useless for each nation to bring about the damage of the planet itself, yet, both stubbornly declined all routes towards peace-making.  No one acquiesced to stop their manufacture of nuclear arms.  The Cold War proceeded unmitigated decade after decade.

So instead of executing fights directly, the two countries fought each other through small wars all over the world.  The Soviet Union, working with China, happily added to the humiliating loss in Vietnam the U . S . suffered.  But the United States after that flipped around and armed the Afghan Mujahideen which lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union in their occupation of the country.  From proxy battles, the space race, and infrequent face offs such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War continued for decades testing the will and resolve of both countries to never look away and give the other the extra edge.

Ultimately the stress on the economies of both countries took its toll in the early 1990s, specifically in the Soviet Union since the hassle of keeping such an expensive and useless war forced the Soviet financial state into failure and the empire cracked.  The U . S . had triumphed in the Cold War by pure will to survive and stubborn refusal to cave in.  This is usually a seldom spoken element of the American spirit but it is one that the Soviets realized to their own catastrophe not to test.  Hopefully no other “superpower” will ever think they are equipped to try it again.

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