Who was Responsible for the Cold War? The West, or the East?

jorbaud, are you attempting to explain the cause of the Cold War with what the UN/US and Russia/China did during it? My examples were to refute your position that they were the cause of the tension between the West and the East.

I do not believe you understood Brotherhood's question. Everything that you spoke about happened after the Cold War was rolling full steam.

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Originally Posted by rasterbee

jorbaud, are you attempting to explain the cause of the Cold War with what the UN/US and Russia/China did during it? My examples were to refute your position that they were the cause of the tension between the West and the East.

I do not believe you understood Brotherhood's question. Everything that you spoke about happened after the Cold War was rolling full steam.

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:duh: half reading stuff.

Ignore my posts.

I can't travel backwards in time.

Yes you can. You just don't know how.

Ah.

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Originally Posted by jorbaud

I believe the world is flat and gravity is just a hoax.

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Yes.

If you read farther in the flat earth thread you will see.

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Originally Posted by Alusiar

jorbaud is the ultimate troll.

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Any chance of a proper answer, jorbaud, or are you just going to spew your nonsensical trolling again?

How you managed to get to post here with your reputation I'll never know.

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Originally Posted by BrotherhoodUK

Any chance of a proper answer, jorbaud, or are you just going to spew your nonsensical trolling again?

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I believe both the West and East are equally to blame. The US used the atomic bombs on Japan to show we were a strong country (even though Japan was going to surrender). The USSR was "gobbling up" countries and building the iron curtain. The West had NATO and the East had the Warsaw pact. Both sides distrusted the other and had misconceptions which led to the rivalry.

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Originally Posted by BrotherhoodUK

How you managed to get to post here with your reputation I'll never know.

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I don't troll much.

Japan was not going to surrender. They dismissed the ultimatum and continued to fight. Just imagine the casualties if the US had to physically invade Japan. We're talking hundreds of thousands of men and machines, and the Japanese would have lost literally millions of people, for everyone was willing to fight for the Emperor and for the nation.

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Originally Posted by BrotherhoodUK

Japan was not going to surrender. They dismissed the ultimatum and continued to fight. Just imagine the casualties if the US had to physically invade Japan. We're talking hundreds of thousands of men and machines, and the Japanese would have lost literally millions of people, for everyone was willing to fight for the Emperor and for the nation.

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Some historians believe they would have surrendered. We could have carpet bombed them instead of using the atomic bombs or gotten help from our allies.