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calvinmorrison
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Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke?
That the Cold war was cold is also a joke. It was full, full, full of hot conflicts with client states.
What it seems to have deterred is two major states warring directly.
suprjami
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Conventional proxy wars are significantly cooler than all-out thermonuclear war.
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b00ty4breakfast
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that was the etymology, given the world we were emerging was one where major world powers came directly to blows amongst themselves rather than through the countless small-scale, regional proxy wars we saw over the 2nd half of the 20th century.
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What it seems to have deterred is two major states warring directly.