Are proxy wars a good thing? Surely they're preferable to outright war
>>2292213
>Egypt
>not USSR-aligned
>>2292218
After the Yom Kippur War maybe. With no years it's pretty pointless
They are "outright war". They're just not direct war between the superpowers, except Africans and Asians die instead of Russians and Americans.
>>2292213
They are good for the countries that are doing the proxy war, bad for the countries that are being treated as the battlefield.
>>2292218
making the us an the ussr compete for him was the only thing nasser was good at