It is impossible for us to know with certainty what would have happened. In both cases there was no direct confrontation between US and Soviet forces but nevertheless the two nations were fighting each other through the support they were giving to other armies/nations.Was the United States wise to fight in Korea? If Truman hadn’t contained communism in Korea what might the consequences have been?
The USSR spent a lot of money and lost a lot of lives to no avail and the situation was so bad that some authors take the fiasco in Afghanistan as one of the reasons of the fall of the Soviet regime. In Afghanistan we have a reversal of the previous scenario the US was supporting the "rebels" while the USSR was supporting and fighting alongside the governmental forces. With the withdrawal of the US from the South and the fall of Saigon to the communist forces of the north the USSR indirectly won a big victory against the US undermining their confidence and prestige. The USSR was supporting the North that without this support would have been beaten almost certainly. Two examples of this type of conflict are the Vietnam War and the War in Afghanistan.ĭuring the Vietnam War the US was fighting alongside the South Vietnamese Forces against the North.
Instead of fighting face to face and risk extinction the two superpowers tended to use other nations as pawns in a very complicated chess game to fight and try to undermine as much as possible the other. During the Cold War period it was very risky for the two superpowers, the US and USSR, to fight openly one against the other because of the risk of mutual annihilation from Nuclear Warfare.
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