You are right Bankotsu.

Consider what happened after Nazi Germany was defeated ... VERY substantially by the Red Army, at FAR more cost than the other allies against German militarism.

We will never know what might have happened if FDR had lived to help peace after WW2, so all we have to go on is such facts as that the "Truman Doctrine" immediately turned the Soviet Union into "the enemy" and threatened pre-emptive nuclear strikes.

I am well aware of Soviet defects - especially under Stalin - but it was Washington which created the "Cold War" and everything since which has caused conflict during my lifetime - approaching 70 years.

It never ends, does it!! The determination to destroy the USSR ... more recently Vietnam, Iraq, Iran and so on.

700+ military bases around the world. CIA assassination squads. Name it and Washington does it, true terrorist style.

Makes me sick