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The Cold War's Hidden Wars — Proxy Conflicts That Shaped the Modern World
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2026-05-12 20:33:14
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The Berlin Wall and nuclear standoffs get the headlines. The proxy wars get the body counts. Korea: 36,000 Americans, 600,000 Koreans, 900,000 Chinese dead. Vietnam: 58,000 Americans, 2+ million Vietnamese. Angola. Afghanistan. Nicaragua. El Salvador. Mozambique. The Cold War was fought on a dozen fronts simultaneously, in countries that never asked to be laboratories for superpower ideology. The political instability those conflicts left behind defines much of the developing world today. → [Read the full analysis](/node/1336)
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