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I wouldn't be surprised if Europe were to one day just stand up to the U.S. When you consider that rednecks and religious fundamentalists who think the earth is 6,000 years old wield a considerable amount of voting, lobbying and legislative power, you have to wonder how long they'll maintain their position of global hegemony.

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Competition does not equal war, and at the risk of sounding inflammatory I think thats a very simplistic way to think. Just look at the cold war. The two most powerful nations on earth armed to the fucking teeth and just staring each other down. But we're all still here. Politics has moved on a lot from WW2. The stakes are too high to be fighting each other and everyone realizes it. No two nuclear armed nations have ever been at war with one another. India and Pakistan have fought before and they still don't get along well, but they won't go to war anymore because they both have nukes now.

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The Cold War did turn hot, so to speak, in several other conflicts around the world. Vietnam comes to mind, as well as the Israel-Arab wars, where the Israelis were armed and backed by the States and the Arabs were armed by the Soviets.

 

I think that JFK almost turned the Cold War "hot" by being over-zealous in trying to oust Castro. Fidel didn't even align himself with the USSR until after the Bay of Pigs and Operation Mongoose. Castro feared the US and so he naturally turned to the only other superpower that could protect his regime, the Soviets. The heightened tensions eventually culminated in the Cuban Missle Crisis. All this could have been avoided had Kennedy not been so zealous in his crusade against communism. Hot damn, History of the Americas is paying off!

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That is true that the cold war almost turned hot at least once or twice (and who knows how many times behind closed doors), but the point is that it didn't. It never came to that because politicians aren't stupid. And the cold war was a situation where two nations with opposing ideologies who were sworn enemies whose citizens were taught to hate each other still never managed to pull the trigger. What we have today is simply the growth of new centres of power all around the world. There are tense situations for sure such as the US and China over Taiwan but the US and China do get along and trade and all other relations still exist.

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The Cold War did turn hot, so to speak, in several other conflicts around the world. Vietnam comes to mind, as well as the Israel-Arab wars, where the Israelis were armed and backed by the States and the Arabs were armed by the Soviets.

 

I think that JFK almost turned the Cold War "hot" by being over-zealous in trying to oust Castro. Fidel didn't even align himself with the USSR until after the Bay of Pigs and Operation Mongoose. Castro feared the US and so he naturally turned to the only other superpower that could protect his regime, the Soviets. The heightened tensions eventually culminated in the Cuban Missle Crisis. All this could have been avoided had Kennedy not been so zealous in his crusade against communism. Hot damn, History of the Americas is paying off!

But remember that the policy of anti-communism had been inherited from the Eisenhower administration, and the Bay of Pigs plot was almost exclusively planned by the Eisenhower administration, but "approved", in a sense, by the Kennedy administration.

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