that could never happen ngl
The USSR's whole goal was to kill democracies by infiltration
if the US never had beef with the USSR, we would've just been overtaken
heck, their people are almost succeeding with us today
"but if they abandoned their core values we would have been fine" no, millions more would have died in eastern europe, and Mongolia probably wouldn't exist anymore
but that was literally the core value of the USSR
that's like saying if Nazis didn't have their goal they wouldn't have united the world against them and they'd probably still exist