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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1266615, member: 3011&quot;]The war in Viet Nam was just ending in 1975, with the USSR backing NV.&nbsp; The invasion of Afghanistan didn&#039;t even begin until 1979, which was a major cold war confrontation.&nbsp; The Star Wars arms buildup in the 80s was a highly significant Cold War confrontation.&nbsp; A good case could be made that the cold war never ended with Russia upgrading their nuclear forces, resuming nuclear air patrols, building underground cities in the 90s to make it thinkable to win a nuclear exchange, and signing joint military agreements with China aimed at the West.&nbsp;&nbsp; And this doesn&#039;t even include the proxy wars fought by surrogates like Cuba around the Carribean and in Africa.&nbsp; I even read, but cannot now source, that it was learned after the fall of the USSR that in the late 70s some USSR military elite recommended war against the West at the time our military was depleted because they thought it was their best chance of victory.&nbsp; Even now the US is ringing Russia and China with military bases, aimed at what? </p><p><br /></p><p>So let&#039;s not speak of this nonsense of the Cold War ending in 1975.&nbsp; If you had said that by 75 the threat of a nuclear exchange had diminished, maybe.&nbsp; But the Cold War was one fought on many levels and in many places other than the tip of ICBMs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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