That's pretty much what we did to defeat the Soviet Union. Agressive anti-Soviet security at home and in Europe, but didn't invade Russia; and Saddam (who didn't even have an air force) was a titmouse, in terms of threat to us, compared to the warhead-bristling USSR.
"That's pretty much what we did to defeat the Soviet Union. Agressive anti-Soviet security at home and in Europe, but didn't invade Russia; and Saddam (who didn't even have an air force) was a titmouse, in terms of threat to us, compared to the warhead-bristling USSR."
Bravo Sierra.
We fought hot proxy wars against them in Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Central America, the Carribean, South America, and in the Middle East through our proxy, Israel. We also overflew their territory with spy planes quite a bit.
Finally Reagan crushed them through economic warfare.
He got the Arabs to produce more oil and South Africa to produce more gold, driving down the price of both... which were the USSR's chief sources of hard cash. With that plus a military buildup they couldn't match, we beat them in economic warfare