Article reasoning that what ended World War II was not the atom bomb

[Goatseye]

Kasz216 said:

Goatseye said:

Imagine you and your friend consider yourselves bff and you tell each other all your secrets. Days later you find out he was developing and used a Nuclear Weapon and god knows what else. Would you still trust him? He does everything to stop you from making friendships and launch global proxy wars in countries that are friend of yours.

The start of the cold war was Waaaaaaaay before that.

I mean hell, it's worth noting Communist Russia came to power in the middle of a war in which 'White" russia was allied with the USA and Britain.  Many of the "Allies" in World War 2 sent troops and supplies to russia during the russian civil war to prevent the communists from coming to power... Including the United States.

So the two countries who didn't really trust each other in the first place.  With the USA trying to prevent them from taking over in the first place, and then communist rehtoric being that htey were basically the enemy of all capitalism.

 

That the two would butt heads after becoming two huge fish in a small pond was inevitable.

That was just a conflict of ideology I consider. After the communist had risen to power they colaborated to defeat Nazi threat until the Japan nuke incident.Cold War would be like launches of proxy wars throught the world (Vietnam, Congo, Bolivia, Cuba), arms race(nukes), strategic missile placements etc...