The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence.
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.