Originally Posted by dyna mo

If you were trying to point to containment as the overarching point of foreign policy, you would have said that, not that the point was to avoid ww3, which is entirely wrong. 24 hour continuous b52 mission with nuclear weapons is not a deterrent to ww3, in fact, it's quite the opposite. That's just 1 small example illustrating our foreign policy since ww2 has never been about stopping ww3.