Why did the Cold War take so long? Why didn't the two Superpowers

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>>3291621
Well, USSR tried to join NATO

>>3291676
Source?

Neoliberalism won't allow anyone to opt out of its hegemonic global trade.

>>3291695
type "ussr join nato" in google and pick the one you find more reliable

>>3291706
i am sure that without the cold war, free trade would have been possible, like with China today

>>3291621

brazil also had communist guerrillas

>>3291621

the two powers were ideologically and economically incompatible and the existence of focal points of conflict all over the globe meant there was little opportunity to cooperate, but i would argue that the peaceful resolution of every cold war crisis(between the USSR and USA, not their proxies) shows several diplomatic solutions

a "peace deal" between the two powers would have had to negotiate acceptable divisions in africa, asia, south america and europe. today we can't even settle on a good division of the ukraine

USSR and USA both had a responsibility (whether perceived or actual) to "stand up" to the other.

The leaders understood that any friendly overtures would be seen as weakness in the face of an existential enemy.

After all, it took an anti-communist hard-ass like Nixon to be able to open Chinese relations with the West.

>>3291621
USSR was the aggressor and wouldn't let E.Europe decide its own fate. The US took this as a threat and decided to counter USSR wherever it tried to place its influence.

tl:dr Soviets didn't want peace and wanted to be the big guy.

>>3293700
>USSR was the aggressor
Something something Fulton speech
>wouldn't let E.Europe decide its own fate
Yeah, aggressor that lost a war doesn't have right to decide its fate

game theory

Would it still be happening if Communists and Muslims had better relations?

Why did India lean towards the Soviet Union rather than the United States?

>>3295302
The US had already allied with Pakistan, India's rival, beforehand to get closer to Chins. This was a huge sour point between America and India and it lead to India and the USSR signing a friendship agreement. In 1971 relations between the US and India became worse when Nixon sperged out on the country when it tried to stop Pakistan from committing genocide in Bangladesh (Or East Pakistan at the time). The US eventually sent an aircraft carrier into the Bay of Bengal to threaten India and prevent it from invading the Pakis. The USSR, who supported the Bangladeshi Independence movement, then sent two groups of nuclear armed ships to blatantly follow the US's own fleet. A nuclear submarine was also sent into the Bay of Bengal by the Soviets.

This act more or less cemented good Indian and Soviet relations for the rest of the Cold War.

>>3293882
>Poland
>Czechoslovakia
>Hungary
>Romania
>Bulgaria
>Yugoslavia
>Aggressors

Is this the power of /leftypol/ autism?