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The TV series “The Man in the High Castle” imagines a world in which Nazis won World War II. But we don’t need an alternative-history show to imagine a Soviet victory in the Cold War. We have Trump.

If the Russians won the Cold War, we wouldn't have the military we have with bases all around the world, and we wouldn't have the economy we have.

If the Russians won the Cold War, they wouldn't just be in Syria. Their forces would be in dozens or scores of countries in different corners of the globe.

As it is, they aren't in Prague or Warsaw or Bucharest or Berlin. They aren't really in Havana. Soviet military forces aren't even in Kiev or Riga or Tallinn any more.

So the Russians/Soviets haven't won the Cold War.

The question for Milbank - and for the rest of us - is what does the world look like if we - the United States - won the Cold War?

Would we have troops all around the world and be involved in several wars at once?

Would we retreat into ourselves and withdraw from the rest of the world?

Or would we do something else?

I'm not trying to prejudge the answers.

But I do think Milbank hasn't himself asked the question.

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Huge post. Very thought provoking, and not one that lends itself to some snap reply. You don’t see that all the time on FR any more.

Just wanted to congratulate you. Whole premise of your post is correct in my opinion, but as a sort of thought experiment there are so many other directions to go in with it.