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Originally Posted by enigma2
Oh! for heavens sake! The whole reason d'etre of your military, government et al was the destruction of the USSR. Now you are allies. As if Cuba could ever do any harm to the US!
Have you ever heard of rhetoric? The Cold War is over isn't it time for that whole them/us thing was also ended?
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You're wrong...again. The raison d'être of the US military is to protect American and Allied interests. During the Cold War, that was accomplished through the policies of containment and MAD. It wasn't until Reagan's Presidency that the goal of dismantling the Soviet Union was proposed.
By contrast, it was the USSR's goal to destroy the US from, at least, the early 1960's when Khrushchev appeared before the UN, banged his shoe on the table and exclaimed "Мы вас похороним!", translated: "We will bury you!"
We took his threat seriously, as we should have, and as a result, buried them.