>And there was no war for 50+ years.
There is still no war between Russia and the US.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis#Averted_n...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Kennedy's_escalati...
Kennedy believed another failure to stop communist expansion would irreparably damage US credibility. He was determined to "draw a line in the sand" and prevent a communist victory in Vietnam. He told James Reston of The New York Times after the Vienna summit with Khrushchev, "Now we have a problem making our power credible and Vietnam looks like the place."
That line actually originates from Karl Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice...the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Žižek often references this concept, but it’s Marx who coined it in his analysis of historical repetition.
You need to really work on the depth of your historical understanding and get off of Mastodon or Lemmy, which I'm guessing is why I mistook your addledness for Twitter.
But if that's the only defense you have for the current farce -- sure, go ahead and run with it.