You're a Communist, Charlie Brown

What if Peanuts is a metaphor for the Cold War?

What if Charlie Brown was Soviet Russia, and Lucy was America?

Charlie Brown, always pursuing the (nuclear) football, only to be thwarted by American spycraft?

Charlie Brown, seen reaching out to minorities within America to demonstrate the contradictions and hypocrisies within American democracy?

Charlie Brown, who insinuated himself into the hearts of others via the cat's paw of an affectionate dog? Snoopy? To snoop?

Charlie Brown, whose Snoopy agents facilitated the hippie/counterculture movement, culminating in Woodstock?

Charlie Brown, eventually eclipsed by an ascendant Snoopy (China), who sought to assert his own identity and destiny by becoming the true leader of Communist power?

Charlie Brown, whose unrequited flirtations with Peppermint Patty reflect the uneasy relations Soviet leaders had with East Germany, an athletically dominant but restive and ultimately uncontrollable satellite?

Charlie Brown, ultimately rendered impotent by his many internal contradictions and divisions?

If so, then what does that make Lucy? The domineering, physically aggressive, narcissistic force of wrath and vindictiveness?

Ready to diagnose problems in others while offering no useful insights, but charging for the time?

Dragging a younger brother Linus (Great Britain) into conflict after conflict, using the blanket (nuclear umbrella) as leverage?

Completely self-unaware about her own flaws?

Flirtatious with Schroeder (Europe), and yet rejected by him over and over again because her nature was so at odds with his own?

Poor Sally and Linus. They would find love, if they were not pawns in the Great Game. At least the lesser nations always believe so.