Yes, interesting point. One about which I could also write a whole series of posts (hmmm, I sense a "trend" here 😉) ... I am most assuredly of the uhhh ... "old school" ... class of Americans. Whose fathers fought in World War II, after growing up in the Great Depression era ...
Russia could have been ... "dealt with" (Patton should have been turned loose) ... back then, but ... The "powers that be" had other ideas (Patton died under mysterious / questionable circumstances) ... I could go even further into how the Russian people initially welcomed the Nazi armies as "liberators," at least of sorts, from Stalinist terror, but ... Ohh, wait a minute, Hitler wanted them "dealt with" only slightly less severely than the Jewish people ...
History about which far too few of our younger generations have any idea ...
The China Model is Dead." If so, maybe material for a future post!Just read this, @patriamreminisci, and thought of you. You might find it of interest - "