The Pros And Cons Of The Cold War

War. When looking at the international community war seems to be the one thing we can always count on to be present. The majority of us do not seem to realize that there is always a war going on somewhere in the world. We go on living our cushy lives while people all over the world are suffering. One thing we may not realize is that we are in the midst of a war ourselves. This war has been going on since 1947, and it was thought to have ended in 1991. But did the Cold War really ever end? No it did not. Yes the war between the United States and the Soviet Union that was thought to have ended 24 years ago never really did. Tensions between the United States and Russia have increased gradually since the supposed end of the Cold War, which leads
Russia did give up some of its nuclear weapons from the Soviet controlled states of Ukraine and Kazakhstan, but the country has still continued to maintain its much larger arsenal of nuclear warheads. Likewise, the United States has done nothing to reduce their arsenal of warheads but has instead invested billions to modernize these weapons. NATO, the organization created for the sole purpose of preventing Soviet invasion, has done nothing about the territorial ambitions of now Russian president Vladimir Putin. Putin’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine has been met only with Western leaders denouncing his actions, but doing nothing to combat them. This is the same response that the Soviet Union’s actions were met with throughout the Cold War. Public denouncing of their actions was the response from both sides when the other did something they did not approve of. The reason why is the same reason why it’s the case today as well. The fear of nuclear destruction is still present, maybe even more so now then 25 years ago. We like to believe that since the collapse of the Soviet Union the threat of nuclear warfare just magically went away, but the reality is that it has stayed in play with no end in