I will be pleased, though, if this view of the Cold War as a whole produces some new ways of looking at its parts. One that has especially struck me is optimism, a quality not generally associated with the Cold War. The world, I am quite sure, is a better place for that conflict having been fought in the way that it was and won by the side that won it. No one today worries about a new global war, or a total triumph of dictators, or the prospect that civilization itself might end.
I listened to this part about 3 weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine and people actually were worried about a global war. I found it funny how this claim appears 5 minutes into the book.
