Borderline Post-Soviet Disorder
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The Risk of a Nuclear Warhead in the Oceans
The cold war wasn't about imperial expansion in the old sense, where an expansionis state sought to impose itself by force on another territory and rule it. In the cold war, each of the two combatants were primarily trying to expand, not its state so as its ideological system, whether capitalist or communist,. these two ideologies were different, incompatible views on the course modern life should and would take. Each side believed that everyone would be happier, better off, more blessed, really, to live in a liberal, democratic, capitalist system. Soviets believed the same about their centrally planned, marxist, highly bureaucratic system. When the cold war ended, russia threw out its universalist ideology.
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