How has History helped us avoid WW3: Cold war

Andrei Tapalaga ✒️
4 min readJul 5, 2019
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There have been many incidents that were called as a second world war in the 21st century and especially in the years of 2017–2018 where the tensions got quite high between the United States of Ameria, Russia and North Korea. However, the media can be quite deceiving and we will never truly know how high the tension actually was. We will never know if there was direct communication between the leaders as this could have a major impact to the tension that has been build up as well as emotions that are put into the decisions that are made by these powerful men. Never the less, I would like to make this into a series as there are many other wars that we have learned from that has, in many ways, helped us avoid another War. The reason as to why I start with the Cold war is because I think it has had the most significant outcome towards the understanding of possible consequences of a third World War. The first point which I think is obvious is the use of nuclear armament that would bring an imminent end to our world as we know it. Even the Great leaders during the Cold War have acknowledged that going through such a war would bring the end to this world as we know it. What we have to acknowledge here is that it is not a fight anymore or better yet a race between communism and capitalism but more of a parade to portray military power and flex that financial muscle as well as clench economic fist…

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Andrei Tapalaga ✒️

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