If anything, "Cold War" is a misnomer because ever since the end of WWII and the present there has always been at least one conflict somewhere in the world where the proxies of the USA have been fighting the proxies of the USSR (and now Russia) and/or China.
There might not have been Americans on the ground in Afghanistan shooting at Russians, or Chinese or Russians shooting at Americans in Vietnam, but saying that proxy conflicts were not related in any way to the conflict between the USA, the USSR/Russia and China is ahistorical.
Do you think WWIII might happen soon?
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"No one fought anyone during the Cold War."
If anything, "Cold War" is a misnomer because ever since the end of WWII and the present there has always been at least one conflict somewhere in the world where the proxies of the USA have been fighting the proxies of the USSR (and now Russia) and/or China.
There might not have been Americans on the ground in Afghanistan shooting at Russians, or Chinese or Russians shooting at Americans in Vietnam, but saying that proxy conflicts were not related in any way to the conflict between the USA, the USSR/Russia and China is ahistorical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proxy_wars#Cold_War_proxy_wars