Comment by Matl

You're completely delusional. The Soviets were not an especially 'aggressive actor' compared to the West. You seem to forget that Western colonialism was why Vietnam started fighting in the first place.

If there's something you could count against the Soviets, it would be their support for Israel and arms supplies because they naively believed Israel would be a socialist state aligned with them.

And Iran was neither behind Ocrober 7, nor is it 'in complete ruins'.