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Originally Posted by Webstral
I thought about this idea for the rest of the day yesterday. It's an idea that merits its own thread.
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I remember a discussion of this topic in the forum but I don't recall whether it was part of a dedicated thread, or a tangent to a different topic. I'll scan the thread map again and see if there's a thread listed where we could revisit this discussion.
Personally, since Iraq was no longer a Soviet proxy, I don't really see Desert Storm as a Cold War battleground. Even before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Iraq was playing both sides of the fence. Iran, on the other hand, tried to distance itself from both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.
On the other hand, even though South Africa was a bit of a global pariah, and technically non-aligned, it was seen by the West- and used- as a bulwark against communism in the southern quarter of the continent. Angola was most definitely a communist proxy, for both the U.S.S.R. and Cuba. So yes, I agree that the fighting there was a regional annex of the larger Cold War.