My two cents: the Cold War is over, and I do not think our interests are served by refighting the cold war against Cuba or China. As a liberal democracy, we ideally should be advocates for human rights and international law.
As for the USSR, I feel like Americans give themselves way too much credit for the demise of the Soviets. It was long standing internal structural weaknesses, latent nationalism, and the efforts of Russians Balts, Ukranisns, central Asians themselves who transformed their nations. Bedtime for Bonzo had almost nothing to do with it
HHhhhmmm, thnx for your two cents.... To be honest I am not specially concerned or interested much about Cuba, China~CCP more specially..
How the USSR decomposed is certainly open to debate but it came about economically, IMHO, & not militarily-there was no battle field victory, as they say..
The CCP is our competitor, rival, adversary~ can we compete??
Can we compete economically as we did in our rivalry w/ the USSR??
I think we can but not on the path we have been going down since the cold war ended, & more specifically since 2001-9/11 & the dick & bush regime change missions/China allowed into the WTO...
While we wasted life & treasure doing so, they have been forming relationships & building their economy @ staggering rates..