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In order to evaluate the United States' continually portrayed image of the Soviet Union as aggressive and interventionist, what merits assessment are the factors involved in determining what constitutes such policy. In the case of direct military intervention, an analysis of the nature of intervention is first and foremost in substantiating whether or not a nation can be defined as aggressive, however, Soviet policy towards neither Nicaragua nor Cuba during the 1980's involved such actions. …

…of the U.S. and had decided to steadfastly oppose it. Thus Soviet restraint was relevant not only to the domestic economy and re-establishing the perceived international Soviet position as one not of threat and peril, but also to avoid escalation of these Cold War tensions leading to possible direct aggressive confrontation with the U.S.- an event that considering the unmistakable Soviet military inferiority would massively threaten the survival of the Soviet Union.