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I have a plush toy on my desk here that keeps my town from being hit by asteroids. It works fantastic, no asteroids have hit this town since I put it there.

I'm judging that you are trying to say something in a sarcastic manner, but can you elaborate please? It did not connect.

My claim that a plush toy has been keeping this town from being hit by asteroids is roughly equivalent to your claim that NAM countries were "the actual reason that a war between the West Bloc and the East Bloc never really happened".

what I said was that it was one of the reasons, not the only reason.

A plush toy, is only a non-living thing, that sits and do nothing, NAM is a 115 country strong organization, most of which are countries that joined it to not align based on military issues, but on development issues, with someone like India, who have also been under colonial rule like them

> NAM is a 115 country strong organization

Thus not India.

Surely there's a better way of expressing yourself that isn't so snarky and condescending.

Sorry to be frank, but

"Due to its nature, that whatever was happening, was on a diplomatic behind closed doors basis, where discussions were being held about stances hiding it from both US and USSR bloc, it is very hard to trace, what they really did, and how they did it. "

does not contain any facts and sounds more like something from the X-Files.

I'm not sure what you mean with "NAM Wiki", if you mean the Wikipedia page, I've read that one and couldn't find anything on how they worked to prevent a war.

This is how it worked somewhat: Bloc A and B are pressing Country C and D and more to join one of them. Alone, the pressure is a huge deal for these countries, who are fresh out of colonial rules. Country E, which was also under colonial rule until recently and shares a lot of things with these other countries decides to collaborate with them in dealing with the pressure, Bloc A and B are exerting. So together, all the countries were able to stand firm against this pressure, just like the story of 5 brothers and 5 sticks. On the other side, as a third front, they also pushed the Bloc A and B to hold bilateral talks.

I'm finding it difficult to reconcile the lack of prestige or power of Indian diplomacy (compare to China, France, UK, US, Russia) against the idea that they were significant behind closed doors in averting Cold War crises. Where did all this diplomatic skill go after the Cold War? Where was it before the Cold War crises really took off? Skilled diplomatic corps aren't things that can be conjured out of thin air.

Certainly India would have been a powerful addition to either side of the Cold War, and declaring a third path was a powerful statement to make in itself, but it doesn't follow that the Cold War would have gone live if it weren't for Indian diplomats.