The world view narrative of my life time has been Soviets, now Russians, bad, Americans good. The truth is much more nuanced and most importantly is that it’s not all Americans good and Russians bad, as Terry Cowan describes in a timeline that corresponds to a good chunk of my life.
I do know that Eisenhower warned about the wealth gathering of the military industrial complex that I cannot help but feel is behind much of what we do. I know that American involvement in Vietnam was not accepted to a majority of Americans. And I know that weapons of mass destruction was a false pretext to our invasion of Iraq. These don’t sum up to a trustworthy American side of the narrative.