No two countries have ever handled a confrontation as responsibly as the Americans and the Soviets. The opportunities for war were endless, the war never happened. And I'd like to say to Europeans who call Americans cowboys: Europe destroyed itself in 31 years between 1914 and 1945. Imagine if the lurid gentlemen of 1914 or 1939 had nuclear weapons. Would they have behaved with the meticulous cautions that the Americans and the Russians behaved? Well, that is a question we don't have to answer thank God, but it is doubtful for me.
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Not electing drooling morons as your leaders tends to do that
>elect vomiting morons instead
>implying that wasn’t a power move
>Imagine if the lurid gentlemen of 1914 had nuclear weapons
This concept made me sad, because you know full well they'd have used them. The only question is would they have known the cancerous effect of radiation, but either way they'd have slow walked countless ranks of infantry through irradiated land anyway, the casualties would continue well into the '20s at least.
They'd have been as moronic as their past counterparts if there were no World Wars to demonstrate the stupidity of Europoors. However, I agree in thanking it was the Russians vs Americans. One can only pray in a world where Anglos, Franks, or, God forbid, Germs have the capacity to wage wars with nuclear weapons
We already knew Western E*ropeans are subhuman OP
>Imagine if the lurid gentlemen of 1914 or 1939 had nuclear weapons.
>1914
God now that is a "what if" question I don't believe I am ready for.
The Brits and Americans would certainly have turned all of continental Europe into a radiated wasteland.
>existence of nuclear weapons means that any war between nuclear-armed powers could swiftly devolve into a nukefest
>nuclear-armed major powers adjust their foreign policies accordingly
>"Bro, like, what if Nicholas II and the Kaiser had nukes bro, they'd like *does a fat bong rip* turn Europe into, like, a nuclear wasteland or some shit bro"
It's good to brush up on protocol and learn how to navigate complicated situations with some diplomacy and tact like a big boy wearing your big boy pants.
The fact both sides had first strike as not only an idea but as a concrete part of their war plans shows that human civilization should have been reset to square 1, and we better thank God, Buddha, Allah, Random chance, or whoever is responsible that it didn't happen. To call the state of affairs between the US and the Soviets before de-escalation and disproving of overkill anything but total insanity is to be oblivious to the danger we were in. It was literally India/Pakistan tier but with the entire Northern Hemisphere.
Americans should have nuked the shit out of Moscow and Beijing IMMEDIATELY after WW2 ended.
If only we had the nukes to do it with
The Cold War was the most destructive and horrific conflict in all of recorded history for precisely the same reason you're waxing poetic about it. What's even worse is that people think it somehow ended in 1991
it all went well right up until the soviets collapsed. then america acted as if they had hegemony and treated russia as a permanently defeated advisory, instead of treating them as a real partner. number one geopolitical mistake they made since 1991
Europe had plenty of chemical weapons in 1939 and they were never used, at least on any wide scale
Only because they knew exactly how bad chemical warfare was for having experienced it.
Just as the Soviets and Americans knew how devastating nuclear weapons were from the Japanese experiencing it
Reckon it was probably that, but mostly just mishaps and experiments going bad
Radiation is a hell of a problem and takes for fricking ever to deal with and basically renders any area it contaminates completely unusable