It depended on where in the world you were. Both Russia and America wanted to avoid full on conflict so they established proxy wars to try weaken the other. America was certainly the aggressor in Vietnam and Korea while Russia was the aggressor in Cuba and arguably in Afghanistan amongst a whole myriad of other conflicts
while Russia was the aggressor in Cuba and arguably in Afghanistan
Fucking pardon me? Russia literally tried to take over Afghanistan after the US gave them weapons to protect them from Russia.
“We are not afraid of the Russians, but we are afraid of their helicopters.”
– Some Afghani
edit: I’d say that the USSR wasn’t really the aggressor in Cuba, that was Fidel and his cohort. Castro literally reached out to the Soviets because he needed help after his revolution.
It depended on where in the world you were. Both Russia and America wanted to avoid full on conflict so they established proxy wars to try weaken the other. America was certainly the aggressor in Vietnam and Korea while Russia was the aggressor in Cuba and arguably in Afghanistan amongst a whole myriad of other conflicts
Fucking pardon me? Russia literally tried to take over Afghanistan after the US gave them weapons to protect them from Russia.
“We are not afraid of the Russians, but we are afraid of their helicopters.”
– Some Afghani
edit: I’d say that the USSR wasn’t really the aggressor in Cuba, that was Fidel and his cohort. Castro literally reached out to the Soviets because he needed help after his revolution.