Kammala wannan jumla: A cikin wannan shekarun, Yakin Cacar Baki ya ci gaba tare da rage tashin hankali da Tarayyar Soviet saboda manufar Nixon na détente. Duk da yake wannan ya rage yawan ayyukan a Arewacin Atlantic, Baltic, da Jamus, shekarun da suka gabata sun kasance sau da yawa ta hanyar rikice-rikice na duniya a cikin Rumunan. Muhimmanci daga cikin wadannan sune sakamakon juyin mulki na 1969 a Libya, da
Rikicin Jordan na 1970, yakin Yom Kippur na 1973, rikicin 1974 a Cyprus, da kuma fashewar abubuwa da yawa a Lebanon. Rundunar Sojojin Amurka ta shida da kawayenta na NATO sun ci gaba da kasancewa a bakin teku don mayar da martani ga duk wadannan rikice-rikicen.