Mxsmanic wrote:
Gig 601XL Builder writes:

So is it your opinion that had the US not sworn to protect Western
Europe during the cold war the USSR would probably still not ever
attemped to take over Western Europe?

I don't know. Would the US have attempted to take over Warsaw Pact
countries if the USSR had not been protecting them?

There is no reason to think we would. On the other hand Nikita Khrushchev
said, "We will bury you!"