NATO's existance says you're wrong. Every country that has the ability to build a nuclear arsenal and isn't on the west's shitlist has built as big a stockpile as possible. The soviet union was just one of a literal handful of countries we wanted to stop from building lots of them but couldn't. For the better part of a half-century, they were invading everything around them, it could have been any political model and there would still have been an arms race. Aggressive facism and communism are different animals.
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"She has no waist, no arse...an interesting face...but all we are really worshipping is two bags of silicone"
Martin Amis "honoring" katie price with a character bearing some of her traits