The right question about the Cold War is not what we did wrong but what we did so right that seventy years passed without a world war.

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• The United States is a historical rarity: after 1945 it could have taken the whole world without losing a soldier, and instead it rebuilt the countries it had defeated. EMElon Musk9 Nov 2023
• Ukraine should have kept its nuclear weapons in 1993, and keeping them would have made this war far less likely. JMJohn Mearsheimer17 Nov 2023
• Be careful wishing for a world with no war at all, because what would be required to enforce it might be worse than a little war. EMElon Musk9 Nov 2023
• Technological progress did not slow down from 1970 to the present, compared with its pre-1970 speed SAScott Alexander1 Jan 2014

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