12-16-2017, 09:25 PM
(12-16-2017, 09:16 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:They were destroyed as great powers, After the war the US was the only country that was capable of counter-balancing Stalinist Russia, hence the cold war.(12-16-2017, 09:02 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: > I've noticed you completely ignored my second point about the
> post-WW2 world a non-completely destroyed Germany and Japan would
> have been useful buffers against the soviets. Thus we would not
> have had to fight the cold war. The Dominant boomer Conclusion
> that we should have worked to democratize Russia and China is what
> is utter nonsense. Once again, can Boomers imagine how BORING the
> current saeculum would have been without the Communist USSR,
> Communist China, and the Arab and Asian nationalist states.
You must be thinking about a different WW II than I am. In the WW II
that I'm thinking of, Japan and Germany were NOT completely destroyed,
as can be easily proven by the fact that both countries still exist
today.