Which additional realistic cases where the West and Russia avoid a direct confrontation but one of them fights the other's proxy could there have been? In real life, there were:
-Korea
-Vietnam
-Afghanistan
-Ukraine
In the first two wars here, the US fought Soviet proxies whereas in the second/last two wars here, the Soviet Union/Russia fought Western proxies.
-Korea
-Vietnam
-Afghanistan
-Ukraine
In the first two wars here, the US fought Soviet proxies whereas in the second/last two wars here, the Soviet Union/Russia fought Western proxies.