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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
I agree with the main thrust of your comment (that it’s ethical and that this is a much more straightforward situation that some proxy wars), however I wouldn’t exactly use the Cold War as a positive example of the US saving the day with bipartisanship. The only reason the parties were so united in that regard was because the US government had effectively squashed all dissent by locking up, killing, or blacklisting anyone who disagreed. And instead of helping countries defend themselves against an actual invader like we’re doing now, during the Cold War we were usually just overthrowing leftist governments and installing dictatorships. I’m realizing now that I’ve kinda drifted off topic, I just figured it was worth saying
gpt
Lots of bad things happened during the Cold War. But the NATO alliance wasn’t one of them. And the NATO countries were not held together by McCarthyism. 

Indeed, there were many Stalinists in Western Europe, which is what prompted George Orwell, a socialist who opposed Stalin, to write *1984*. It was the Marshall Plan that initially held the alliance together, until the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 turned Western Europe firmly against the U.S.S.R., much as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has turned Western Europe firmly against Russia.