The full first half of the Cold War c.1945-1970 was spent trying to convince everyone the Russians are an evil barbarous horde of orcs hell-bent on destroying civilisation and cannot be reasoned with. You had containment and MacArthur trying to nuke half of Korea.Then the second half of the Cold War c.1970-90 was spent trying to convince everyone the Russians are actually peaceable people just the same as you and I and maybe we can come to an agreement. You had saccharine Lennon, Sting and Billy Joel songs and Samantha Smith off at Artek.I guess now we know which one was more accurate.
>>216650103The first half of the cold war we tried to paint Russia as an evil threat to humanity because they posed a threat to the American economic world order. It’s the same thing we’re doing with China today. America’s power is relative to how wealthy we are, and anything that threatens our wealth is our enemy.You’ll notice how in your own example we suddenly had a change of heart about the Russians as soon as their economy began to collapse and they became more willing to allow western companies into their country. Suddenly they weren’t a threat anymore.
