With this in mind, it would not be unreasonable to draw upon the historical era where the West had to take on Soviet totalitarianism, while a direct military standoff would have been too violent and devastating to be justified. At the time, the West worked toward the full-out attrition and subsequent disintegration of the Eastern Bloc. And although the current situation certainly differs from the 1950–70s, a number of the fundamental elements behind the Cold War strategy that will be listed below appears to be fully applicable. Most notably, those are the combination of the New Containment policy and the acknowledgment of strategic interest areas and the established “red lines”; the use of soft power and active diplomacy in the so-called “third-world countries”; and the leveraging of technological superiority as well as the shrewd economic policies.