Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJager
Nice..

Which nation that has ever identified itself as communist has not been strategically against, or allied with nations that were strategically against America?

I cannot think of one "communist" nation that has ever been allied with, or even on friendly terms with America.

Things might be cooled off now, but trade agreements dont make China a friend.
Well, this is a chicken & egg argument Panzer. The United States has made no secret of the fact that it views any government that goes communist illegitimate and will actively work against it. I'm not saying that to be unpatrioitic, it's a fact. Nicaragua (Ortega) didn't want to be Castro's buttboy, but antagonism by Ford & neglect by Carter gave them few options but to sign on with him.

Sadly, if the US had never taken this "Communist=Stalinist" approach to foreign policy, we could have won the Cold War decades earlier.