How the hell did we make it out alive?

>>2947347

Because of a man named Stanislav Petrov who saved the world.

Communism is an inherently inefficient system so the war was never about defeating the Soviet Union but instead just waiting for their artificially imposed system to collapse on its own.

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Perhaps it was just all a show controlled by the financial powers that be.

>>2947347
because none of the leaders of those nations wanted to destroy themself and everything they hold dear

>>2947442
The only winning move was to not play... and wait for their inevitable economic collapse like >>2947360 said.

>>2947434
>Wall Street went to bat in Washington for the Bolsheviks. It succeeded. The Soviet totalitarian regime survived. In the 1930s foreign firms, mostly of the Morgan-Rockefeller group, built the five-year plans. They have continued to build Russia, economically and militarily.

https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_the_bolshevik_revolution-5.pdf

>>2947347
because we live in one of the universes in the immeasurably small portion of the multiverses where electrical glitches, false alarms, and malice didn't lead to the nuclear holocaust

alternatively, we didn't actually make it out alive, and this is some sort of purgatory where maskirovka is global

At the end of the day, the goal of the people with their finger on the button is to remain in power, not rule a cinder from a bunker. Neither side was able to achieve such an advantage that first strike was going to be an acceptable risk, and so the missiles stayed in the silos.