Cold war ended 25 December 1991

[@salmanhudaya]

Playlist : kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpvEpX1pa8h9rK8

[@82dorrin]

I remember my parents watching this with their mouths hanging open. Even though it was inevitable by that point, they still couldn't believe their eyes.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Sounds like a life long memory right there!

[@spkanava]

91

[@ilmsff7]

That was my feeling when the wall came down. I was 18. I stood there with my mouth open. I couldn't believe the wall was down.

[@Ampl1f1ed_]

Honestly I would've reacted the same if I saw so many historical moments during such a scary era

[@ThothOdin]

When most American families were still together, moments like this brought everyone to the same screen-parents and kids watching history unfold together. Feels like a different time when things were more united. What a memory to hold onto

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

1991: The Cold War has ended 2020s: Cold War 2.0 has entered the chat.

[@senorelroboto2]

In hindsight now, I think it never ended.

[@mohammadreza7126]

And this time middle east became hell instead eastern countries like Vietnam

[@Winterwolf-fs3wh]

Could have avoided the cold war completely if the allies had listened to General Patton

[@SomeGuy5555]

​@@Winterwolf-fs3wh it was a 50/50 situation, either fascism would've won or communism

[@Winterwolf-fs3wh]

@@SomeGuy5555 if the other side won we wouldn't be dealing with communist China, north korea today. And Europe would be for Europeans still.

[@unkono]

This is probably when America Peaked.

[@elpanchomayonesa8069]

edged*

[@cyrus3229]

@@elpanchomayonesa8069bus

[@SteamyShukshee]

Gooned

[@JesusOrDestruction]

All the way up until the Iraq war

[@cyrus3229]

@@JesusOrDestruction Pretty much.

[@minewheaties5029]

The collapse of Soviet Union is a reason why he shouldn't have been so disregarding of the impact of The Simpsons. As Bart got stronger, the Soviet Union got weaker.

[@hueyfreeman1983]

Remember the simpsons predicted the return of the USSR

[@minewheaties5029]

@@hueyfreeman1983 Oh yes, and for good reason. It's like they were saying they had the power to bring it back after playing a role in destroying it.

[@stormtrooperfun2525]

@@hueyfreeman1983 Can we consider the situation that is happening now as the prediction?

[@realcritical-kr2dd]

@@stormtrooperfun2525 slava rossiya 🇷🇺💪🏻

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

@@realcritical-kr2dd LOL

[@skept2591]

"Eastern Europe is free, the Soviet Union itself, is no more." That's cold.

[@dimitarmargaritov]

Though unfortunately we are still under heavy influence from Russia.

[@skept2591]

@@dimitarmargaritov There is a threat coming from Russia (the only threat being nuclear warheads wiping out the planet again) but we don't really have much influence from Russia, mostly from the echoes of the Soviet Union back then, and its affects on other countries that were part of the Bloc.

[@cawag98]

It was true, if hopeful for permanence...

[@spkanava]

91

[@hamzaelfaik5375]

😂 then Russia pop up in front of your faces with Putin 😂 USA wish they had leave USSR alone. Now they deal with some bigger than USSR . The USSR on steroids 😂

[@jerwastaken]

Such a shame that events like 9/11 would cut short the feeling of optimism that was felt at this time…

[@scottw6704]

And Able Archer '83, The Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's assassination...it's a repeating cycle that those of a certain age know will start again, and again, and again.

[@Voucher765]

But despite that America continued to prosper despite the 2008 downturn, 9/11 didn't destroy the economy and the country came together

[@patrickvernon4766]

The economy lol how’s the economy now ?

[@Voucher765]

@patrickvernon4766 Badly under Biden especially but if we vote in another Republican that can be turned around

[@randomname9291]

@@patrickvernon4766doing well

[@robertmay9798]

He spent Christmas morning opening presents, muttering "Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kyr-gyz-stan!"

[@FakenameStevens]

Lol. Wasn't it Kazakhstan that didn't let go for a while? Edit yeah, Kurjiztan is the pronunciation. Not that the average American ever heard of it, they must've thought "there was a country called that this whole time? Why didn't anybody tell me?"

[@Kpoole35]

I think you mean Kazakhstan

[@NuortenHistoria]

@@Kpoole35 No lol?

[@Kpoole35]

@@NuortenHistoria Kazakhstan was the last country in the USSR for a few days before declaring independence. It’s pretty obvious that’s what he means.

[@samdrow8268]

​@@FakenameStevenswhat is "Kurjiztan"?

[@gabrielabarca9011]

I hope I can watch a Xi Jinping Pizza Hut commercial before I die

[@otamota7563]

I understood that reference

[@clashkingking6193]

sameee

[@KozelPraiseGOELRO]

Oh, no. What you had done in China, you will not be able to handle this one so easily. The orthodox communism ended after Mao. What you have in your presence is nothing like someting you saw before.

[@abhidxs6121]

​@@KozelPraiseGOELRO exactly, it's not even that far from being a possibility now. If officials can advertise other products what's stopping them from advertising kfc one day 💀

[@KozelPraiseGOELRO]

@@abhidxs6121 Dude, I am trying to sound serious. Deng Xiaoping, left behind the class struggle, the only thing that puts a limit to a Planned Centralized Economy, therefore the Chinese production apparatus is smarter, than the US one, hense more productive, but equally immoral.

[@theshadownarwhal2546]

The fact that this happened on Christmas too

[@czernobog2725]

Best and greatest christmas present ever

[@DejanShadow]

I guess '90s is the peak of USA's power. during these years they had technically no rival

[@ssg9offical]

1990s is peak US.

[@ashish_p_s]

Now US is not a power ... CHINA RUSSIA INDIA

[@ericjohn9613]

and now ?

[@haigboardman]

1940's was peak America

[@DejanShadow]

@@haigboardman 1940? 💀

[@cawag98]

Wow, at 21 I wasn't a supporter of HW Bush, but I recall hearing this Address to the Nation and being impressed. It's hard not to gloat in a situation like 1991, and HW set the tone carefully of both reminding Americans to support him and be glad that the Soviet Union was over. He even said "won the Cold War" but the instruction and explanation is all about not gloating, about supporting the people left in the newly independent states and supporting democracy and their retreat from 70 years of the Soviet experiment.

[@ИванКорнилов-у7ю]

в России в 90 годы было плохо! Моя семья голодала временами😭 Процветал бандитизм, терроризм и коррупция.

[@WalesGaming86]

My favourite part is when they said they'd recognise the independence of Ukraine.

[@JackR_TV]

They do, just not Eastern Ukraine or Crimea.

[@missmiss8359]

​@@JackR_TVthey did recognize it though.

[@chadzahirshah2588]

@@JackR_TVNope, Russia recognized the entire national sovereignty of Ukraine, Belarus, etc This was even reaffirmed in the Budapest Memorandum when Ukraine gave up its nukes to Russia

[@nameman7936]

​@@JackR_TVat that time the east and crimea had not revolted as we know it

[@pgr3290]

@@nameman7936 By 'revolt' you mean Russia sending in Russian unmarked troops and mercenaries, commanded by Russians like Igor Girkin using Russian supplied equipment like Buk missiles to shoot down airliners full of civilians. Yeah, why would Ukraine's government be mad about that and respond?

[@somnathdey4376]

This video will get millions of views If Soviet Union is restored

[@arrielradja5522]

If

[@jes3d]

impossible

[@AntiFurry927]

🤣🤣🤣

[@mikemancini313]

Very funny joke

[@insertsomethingfuni2617]

funny guy

[@juanitoalmazan1158]

Who's here after the Black Ops VI trailer?

[@cassianoperalta44]

me XD

[@senorelroboto2]

Me. I wasn't sure if that was an AI-generated alternate history speach

[@Drheims]

@@senorelroboto2 Right? I thought that too,

[@Thenerffan2010]

Time for our daily history lesson brought to us by treyarch😅

[@ChrisTheBuilder32]

me

[@dustinprewitt]

America: good at winning the war, terrible at winning the peace

[@Yobbie72]

Nixon warned Bush about that.

[@spkanava]

91

[@Alidonius6721]

Bush Jr. : Mission Accomplished on Saddam 🫡

[@Vylkeer]

Always thought Cold War ended, or at least began to end, on Nov. 9th, 1989 - when the Berlin Wall was finally destroyed. Either way this was a truly historical moment: the day after HW's announcement, the dissolution of CCCP / USSR took place. Михаил Горбачёв ( _Mikhail Gorbachev_ ) has been a great leader, the best out of the Soviet Union's eight rulers, imo. Someone who truly had peace at heart.

[@goblue85]

The August Coup conspirators stated that they wanted to win the Cold War, so for some it wasn’t over until it was over

[@TFON3212]

the best leader is the leader who destroys the state? Kek.

[@asnekboi7232]

@@TFON3212 the USSR by the time it took charge there were also no hope for it, it was going to either dissolve peacefully or violently

[@SteveInLava]

​@asnekboi7232 the ussr lost more men and equipment in 10 years in Afghanistan than the US for 20 years... let that sink in.

[@asnekboi7232]

@@SteveInLava that’s my point the USSR was a doomed state that by the time Gorbachev took office was going to die

[@lihoffman8157]

30 years later and it still means something good.

[@hueyfreeman1983]

Tell that to the people in Iraq,Libya,Syria,North Korea and Cuba who have been victims of US/Zionist totalitarianism and had no other superpower to back them up

[@katze3659]

@@hueyfreeman1983 cope

[@HalfLife-hq8eu]

@@hueyfreeman1983 they did... it used to be called the Soviet Union. Those countries are going downhill due to civil wars, low stability, and having a history of socialism/communism

[@HalfLife-hq8eu]

@@hueyfreeman1983 and also the US is not totalitarian due to the wonderful thing called the constitution. Most countries you have listed there have had a civil war in the past 30 to 40 years.

[@hueyfreeman1983]

@@HalfLife-hq8eu Their civil wars have all been a result of American sabotage and invasion, America is no more a democracy than any of the countries i mentioned

[@LBuzi08]

The guy from blackops

[@ironic_iron8770]

holy crap, they made him in real life

[@Neinstika1940]

Yeah, black ops vi

[@Kelso2004-o7l]

What a time does this be recommended lol

[@MB-eb9ed]

Two Poles celebrated some time after this by starting a family. One of those babies is the current love of my life. I’m so happy our worlds were able to become one. There’s so much love that can be shared when we can live in peace. I love you Sandra ❤

[@Raprada]

Lucky man

[@TheAeroAvatar]

I miss the nineties. As a child of that time, the world didn't seem such a frightening and confusing place back then. Then 9/11 came. And then there's now.

[@lacosta0892]

The world we have today is much more dangerous and volatile than what we had in the 90s, all because Russia and China decided to elect dictators as their presidents.

[@КомандаЛеви]

​@@lacosta0892 and you guys elected a puppet as your president.

[@speedking7224]

Russia in the 90s was a nightmare. 9/11 was nothing

[@jlo7770]

That's because you were a child lol

[@TheAeroAvatar]

@@jlo7770 so?

[@Egglover2]

Fun fact: the soviet union lasted for four more days as kazakhstan stayed in until boxing day

[@savagepanda8458]

No, Kazakhstan had already withdrawn from the Union. Who they outlasted was the RSFSR.

[@marioPop76]

"Good evening" - 1991 fills the screen -

[@thevigilante5623]

*Screen shows the hammer and sickle symbol shattered as it crumbles.

[@spkanava]

91

[@realgroovy24]

30 years ago today.

[@ЮрийПетрович-в5г]

It's so sad that time never be back again!

[@bananenmusli2769]

I am optimistic that sooner or later Russia will become a free country and China will too.

[@bananenmusli2769]

@OwenDale-pc2bv Japan and South Korea are already democratic countries

[@bananenmusli2769]

@goodlife385 It's not a democratic country. Elections are rigged, opponents die, people are forced to go to war, etc.

[@КомандаЛеви]

​@@bananenmusli2769 nah we don't need your "freedom". Create one in your country first)

[@god-of-war-fan]

@@КомандаЛеви ofc you don't want freedom, you ruskis have a boner for authoritarianism and being dominated by dictators

[@proudkiwi7641]

Imagine those days, those 10 years between 1991 and 2001 when there would have been real optimism and hope about the future of the world. Well..... little did they know shit was only just getting started.

[@gnat3239]

Clinton was kinda lucky to be the president at that time

[@sovietunion8304]

Those ten years looked to be the end to the long violence outbreak stretching back to the assassination of franz Ferdinand with the start of ww1 in 1914 ww1 left Germany broken witch allowed for hitlers raise and ww2 witch allowed the Soviet Union the gain the eastern block witch then fed the Cold War However during the Cold War the Middle East got stirred up by the Soviet Union and combined with the us support of Israel scence its independence in 1948 lead to the 2001 attacks witch sparked the war on terror Now Russia wants there Soviet era terrority back And here we all are again It’s amazing and terrifying to think how all of recent history was caused by one man shooting another man in the balkans

[@strangerthanfiction4014]

It still hurts to look back at the Decade and having seen it go to hell. Much bad was Happening behind the scenes, but it appeared so crystal clear and hopeful.

[@spkanava]

91

[@ibrahimali2617]

"Well Barbara, kinda hard to imagine, but our son Ol'Dubya will take our Superpower Status and send us into a slow decline. Barb I should have pulled out"-George H.W Bush

[@makthnife]

Gross

[@henzohewson]

I just spat out my coke reading this 😂😂😂

[@god-of-war-fan]

not Bush Jr.'s fault. it was the great recession that did it

[@jancsotamas3891]

Thank you for the upload. What an iconic piece of history. But unfortunately it aged terribly.

[@LofiCat940]

George Bush 1990: "A Democratic russia..." 30 years later Putin: 😂

[@saulgoodmanKAZAKH]

I'd even say 10 years later Putin. Don't think that the dictatorship formed in a day.

[@LofiCat940]

@saulgoodmanKAZAKH true

[@BerianYT]

Russia would be Paulinho and Ukraine would be Robert

[@Уриэль-ь4г]

This is not peace; it is an armistice for 20 years

[@funnyguy-ko9mc]

its like ww1

[@averageguy3108]

@@funnyguy-ko9mcexcept that the germans came back stronger, the russians seem to be a whole lot weaker.

[@averageguy3108]

@dyslexicbatnam1350 Soviets had double the manpower, 3.5 million more square kilometres of territory, as well as 30% more GDP. The modern Russia is nothing but just a Chinese Pawn.

[@averageguy3108]

@dyslexicbatnam1350 if you still believe russia is stronger than ussr then you are wrong in the head.

[@rtaj247]

This was the moment they should’ve realised there was no longer a need for NATO. Or, at the very least, the CIS could’ve formed their own alliances .

[@Squiddy-go1du]

Without NATO, things would have been very different…

[@Schnipp08]

Yes, better! ​@@Squiddy-go1du

[@eber792]

@@Schnipp08 Better? Only 3 years later he invaded Chechnya and continues with several other countries to this day.

[@Yobbie72]

Thank God they preserved NATO; Putin might protest it, but by his actions he PROVED that NATO is more relevant than ever.

[@rtaj247]

@@eber792 er…. Putin didn’t invade Chechnya in 1994. I think you’ll find Yeltsin was President .

[@HundreadD]

Complete and utter cultural victory.

[@reddsyoutuberaffle]

W USA

[@joeyb7522]

Anybody here after the BO6 reveal trailer?😂

[@agustinsegovia2473]

In a alternate timeline, it was Biden doing this speech instead of Bush Sr.

[@chrisahearn789]

How do you figure?

[@Robsonski96]

Ha! Biden... 😂

[@mariocadiziii]

Think it was a reference to the failed Biden campaign in the late 80s ​@@chrisahearn789

[@edwardcumpstey9061]

@@chrisahearn789 Because Biden ran for President in 1988.

[@spkanava]

91

[@pclarsen8765]

I greatly admire this address, and the great work accomplished by leaders Reagan, Bush, and Gorbachev.

[@danni_roma]

As something produced by the White House, is this video copyright free?

[@KaoPii-Dingus]

Obviously

[@spkanava]

91

[@davideanes3425]

It belongs to everyone

[@mrheadcrab1233]

I wasn't alive when the USSR collapsed, Hell, I was fresh out of the womb when Bush Jr's 2nd term ended. But if there is one thing, I will never let the prior generation of politics forget, Its that they should have Be-friended Russia when they were no longer communist, because now it feels like the 2nd cold war looms on the horizion

[@alexpatton3524]

I was young when it all happened. I did some news on it

[@HellJumper99]

History video right here

[@Twentythousandlps]

Acknowledges Gorbachev's contribution to the end of the Cold War but not the policies of Ronald Reagan that pushed the policy forward. Why is that?

[@LordBackuro]

Honestly, i couldn’t imagine what it must feel like to be in the Soviet Union. During all of this. The Confusion, Hope, Fear and all that. All the new countries, people separated and united. The Reforms. Like THAT is what i imagine "end of an Era." Must feel like. Or the relief of the average US citizen, at the time (not self proclaimed, intellectuals those bozos still think communism is good.) thinking "Are the nightmares of Nuclear War finally over?" Like this, is one of those moments that just feels. Like a movie, something we don’t have today. Where everything feels, more like a annoying comedy that should have been, discontinued after its best season.

[@neptunefog6082]

Nothing good: poverty, destitution and civil wars all along the borders.. that’s what it felt like, while USA was celebrating the victory , in which “every American can take pride for” for whatever reason.. this was the loss of the empire of true values to the evil empire of USA that was and still is discriminating people based on race and prostituting children even then

[@mark679]

It was hell on earth same with Yugoslavia now we live ina Demographic crisis becasue of the shit hole govt's in the west we had the best quality of life in the east before the fall now because of greedy bastards like Yeltsin and Bush we're livid hell and shit holes.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Beautifully put.

[@spkanava]

91

[@hj8750]

Вы считаете себя мудрым, потому что думаете, что коммунизм это плохо?😁

[@Bryan_Jake]

I really have trouble believing people when they say Reagan was that bad when we literally elected his VP when he was done.

[@Euro.Patriot]

Reagan was elected because of the charisma, he appeared to be friendly. Since they thought he was good Bush I already had a headstart.

[@altfoot648]

Everyone should just watch this and understand how hard we fought for the freedom of all peoples just for a cybermob to protest just to have communism back.

[@discozula4469]

but that comes with freedom of speech and with freedom in general?

[@elcat7811]

And for a random 11 yr old stereotypical dweeb spamming “capitalist pigs” in the chat whenever they see an american or supports US in youtube

[@el_dank_sinatra]

⁠@@elcat7811again, freedom of speech and expression. If you can express your views and beliefs, so can they, whether either side believes the other to be morally wrong.

[@hanbyol19]

Who asked you? Let your own people freely express themselves first, like students for Palestine in the campuses.

[@CalculusBridge]

​@@hanbyol19Communism is an ideology, Palestine is a place, I think there is a difference.

[@antonioserratobarraza5352]

That’s from black ops 6 trailer

[@rozarius5510]

this is the best day in human history

[@bibaswanmukherjee7237]

alright yank...we get it...cope harder

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Christ being born, dying as the Ultimate Sacrifice, and Rising on the Third Day. After those this is definitely near the top!

[@Zopiexx]

Worst*

[@DomnulDarius]

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 Lol

[@rozarius5510]

@@Zopiexx Комунняку на гілляку

[@wtfisthat1022]

IS THAT THE GUY FROM BLACK OPS 6

[@snowimayko659]

Yes

[@cloud10cod30]

Wait is this guy from Call of Duty Black ops 6? 😧

[@douglaz74]

I am not surprised Putin came to power. I told people in the mid 90s that you try to keep Russia down you will get a strong man like in Germany in 1930s. 1991 was not 1945 ! The Russian military and intelligence structure basically remained intact. 2022 not a surprise to me.

[@amythomspon956]

lol the west gave billions in order to help Russia not crash and the leaders just stole the funds

[@deucedwayne]

Russians suck with having freedom; every time they tried making their country free ended with a more vile dictatorship. They haven't formed the political nation that would withstand any scum trying to get the power for his self-enrichment. Russia is like a giant with the immunodeficiency syndrome, there is just *nothing* that would keep the body clean and healthy.

[@SatchelChannel]

From democracy to an oligarchy (like the USA)

[@qwerty3-zt1oo]

You heard it here,one party states are democracies

[@SatchelChannel]

@qwerty3-zt1oo two party states or n-party states where whoever wins the same things are done Is a democracy? Sounds fake to me

[@xChemistryFTWx]

And then we lived happily ever after

[@jaystrickland4151]

I remember watching this on TV as a kid with my mom.

[@dylangtech]

While 1991 began the era in America when our country truly began to lose itself, it must have been nice hearing that at the time. Let it serve as a lesson to all: Ideological wars don't collapse with nations. Any political that is done can be undone. Nothing is "settled law"

[@professional.commentator]

I thought it started on 9/11 though? No?

[@robroy6374]

@@professional.commentator it actually started when clinton took office.

[@green_rice]

HAPPY 33rd ANNIVERSARY FOLKS!

[@radscodyp1233]

God Bless this man!

[@SunnyAdi]

He's dead

[@radscodyp1233]

@Mk78 do you have proof?

[@anonymoustopsecret5995]

@Mk78 Source: Trust me bro

[@VaticanRoblox]

That is George h.w bush, former president of the United States. He sadly passed away on 2018

[@MrBeeMAD]

@@radscodyp1233 proof you can find by Alex Jones film. There are some secret party in California woods.

[@marklomax7452]

I still find it hard to believe that the American voters replaced this man. What a loss.

[@Movingforward2000]

Why?

[@spkanava]

91

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

And if they were going to replace him, it should’ve been Ross Perot. NOT Clinton.

[@Movingforward2000]

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 Worst candidate ever!

[@KingAgniKai]

​@Movingforward2000 He said he wouldn't raise taxes, and then he did. So, literally, everyone wanted him out after that

[@ElleCee62978]

My dad and his family were Lithuanian. They were so excited in 1990 when Lithuania broke free. My grandmother died a year and a day before (12/24/90). My father would die 4 days before (12/21/91).

[@Hypocrisy.Allergic]

It restarted in 1994 thanks Bill

[@JxrdnR6s]

Anyone here from bo6?

[@playernotvjp]

As a Vietnamese(Socialist Republic country), i find something very uncomfortable watching this video.....(also, i dont like Westerner's "Democracy", "freedom")

[@AlyphRat]

Anyone watching this during the Second Cold War?

[@Lee.Hsien-Yung]

The second cold war was the US challenging China

[@proshotplayz5610]

Recommend on Christmas 2024

[@randylaffy7679]

being born in the 90s before 9/11 happen even as a kid and looking back as an adult the Earth almost had world peace. it was the most awesome time to live in during that small decade. id imagine when Jesus Christ comes back we will have 1000 years of this peace but better. To the future for there is hope.

[@Comradpetito]

You are nostalgic of ur childhood, + u are racist

[@syedsakibsakib2205]

Late 41st US President George Bush Born : 12 June , 1924 A.D. Died : 30 November, 2018 A.D. Ages : 94 years old .

[@KozelPraiseGOELRO]

Mala hierba nunca muere.

[@hectorlopez1069]

Both bushes can rot in hell for ruining America.

[@spkanava]

91

[@KS-sl4ji]

And everyone lived happily ever after. The end.

[@wong1030]

or did it?

[@nodical802]

@@wong1030they did

[@vihailevagi]

Until 9/11 happened. Terrorism started spreading to Africa and the Middle East.

[@dawidos369]

Islamic radicals: hello there Vladimir Putin: hello there Cold war with china: hello there

[@KS-sl4ji]

@@dawidos369 Obi Wan Keno - never mind

[@mysterystainontherug6290]

The cold war actually ended in November when Metallica played in Moscow.

[@theta38]

Here after BO6 reveal trailer.

[@whitesimurgh6363]

No empire lasts forever! Not even America... Fall in inevitable!

[@iamred1443]

Just. . . Shut up, darling. . . Long live freedom market

[@spkanava]

91

[@don8244]

The biggest victory of Bush Sr's presidency was inviting Eazy-E to the white house

[@johnnysweet6172]

Black Ops 6 reveal

[@1101millie97]

Looking back, I think wish we had re-elected President George Bush. We’d be in a much happier place.

[@anztamang8476]

Who is here after COD BO6 TRAILER 😅

[@Omegaswrath_YT]

Me

[@spkanava]

91

[@wanderingkernel5002]

Bush: "Eastern Europe is Free." Putin: *"I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move."*

[@phuchong5267]

Dang! I feel so much nostalgic while watching this

[@HowieIsaacks]

George Bush was a great president. It's a shame he wasn't given a second term in office. I will forever be pissed off at Perot for taking away votes that would likely have gone to Bush. More people voted against Bill Clinton in 1992 than voted for him. This speech from Bush shows his grace and class that we don't see today. Many people in his country were mad at Bush for not celebrating the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He calmly announced it and did not gloat the obvious loss of the Cold War by the Soviets. Gloating could have caused hard liners to launch a coup.

[@hello7522]

Why do you love this neocon establishmentarian looser so much? If Bush cared for the hard working man and women of this country, he would have received another electoral landslide. Instead, he sold them out in horrific atrocities like NAFTA. This led both Democrats and Republicans to vote for Perot the only candidate who cared for the American people.

[@raif20xyzz]

Iraq

[@raif20xyzz]

@spawnerist6241 ok

[@justisolated5621]

Dude Perot didn't even get any electoral vote

[@cawag98]

Looking back, though I didn't vote for HW, he was a good president. Reaganomics (Laffer curves, trickle down economics, increasing the national debt) had to explode eventually. It exploded on HW's watch and, relatively honest man that he was, even as he was head of the CIA before, he raised taxes and was booted. Bill Clinton gets abuse from Republicans and Newt Gingrich types, but he was also a good president. He cut spending and, as I recall, even cut taxes. The economy did well, he was re-elected.

[@Fabian-Wenzel]

The final collapse of the Soviet Union was chaotic and in some places warlike. Civil war in Georgia and the Nagorno-Karabakh war in Azerbaijan. Nevertheless, it was the best thing that could happen, that this dungeon of nations would collapse like a house of cards. Multiethnic states that come into being under coercion are doomed to failure, like Austria-Hungary, Yugoslavia, the Ottoman Empire, the Roman Empire and the Soviet Union. But if this multiethnic state is a voluntary project like the USA, then the house will continue to exist.

[@Ashh-sy2uf]

USA is a voluntary project? Native Americans were not massacred to establish United States of America?

[@lacosta0892]

Hence why China’s growing empire is more than likely not gonna last, with the imprisonment of Uyghurs in China, HK falling into the CCP’s control, and the possible future invasion of Taiwan, I can’t see people wanting to side with China in the long run

[@matthewskudzienski888]

It was the free different countries from the U.S. Alliance Victory by the end of the Cold War and the end of the Persian Gulf war and brought peace

[@jake8855]

The Persian Gulf War; where a president who invaded Panama 8 months prior invaded Iraq because it invaded Kuwait, then began an embargo that killed almost a million Iraqis, all to save a corrupt royal family who owned an oil state. Yep.

[@CyanSen6]

Ah, "The End of History" what a joke

[@samdrow8268]

what

[@Alidonius6721]

Bush Sr. Was a disgrace. Just like his War Criminal Son

[@Experimental.Mashups]

Who's here after Black Ops 6 reveal ?

[@luciusveritas9870]

People used to make so much sense. Good old days.

[@eliazarcone]

A message from one of the "sons": peace and bright future did not come

[@alwillk]

Bush forgot to add. “We now need a new country to perpetuate a wasteful and expensive war against. Iraq? Afghanistan? “

[@manipulatortrash]

Why would he? He wouldn't have known his idiot son would do that, he was clearly against invading Iraq since he had the chance but refused it with the Gulf war.

[@calebhoward9555]

Bush Sr. Did 9/11!!

[@Janis6566]

The USSR was a victim?

[@hothdog]

@@Janis6566 yes

[@Janis6566]

@@hothdog I didn't ask you.

[@yuh1180]

"Kirgisistan" 💀

[@grantcaldwell1582]

Happy Midwinter :)

[@Forbidden-Pre-Workout]

Peak of America. 🇺🇸 1985-2001

[@daliprahmad6837]

Before bo6 trailer now gameplay 💀💀

[@Grenadier311]

America was at its zenith in the 90's; economically, culturally, and militarily, but had already begun the painful process of deindustrialization. I miss that decade. Things haven't been the same since that September Day and the '08 crash.

[@vaolin1703]

Bush was just preparing for the elections here by claiming he had played any part in ending the cold war when it had pretty much ended during Reagan‘s presidency.

[@savagepanda8458]

He was vice president for Reagan and this was symbolically the Cold War’s ending.

[@Yobbie72]

agreed. It was over by the Washington Summit in 1987 when Reagan and Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty. This was just the loose ends. The peace came first, the breakup of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR came as a result of this.

[@nizloc4118]

By that token you need to include every President going back to Truman, to tell "the whole story" Bush was the President when it happened. This is why he's giving the speech.

[@vaolin1703]

@@nizloc4118 he was not. The cold war effectively ended before he came into office.

[@Yobbie72]

@nizloc4118 yes, Truman mobilised the NATO alliance, and Nixon had the "Structure of Peace" and detente, but it was under Reagan that a final determination of that struggle was achieved

[@chewchewtrain]

Oh boy I sure hope Russia doesn’t become a hellhole.

[@KozelPraiseGOELRO]

US has destroyed everything it has touched. Now, it has to deal with the phatoms of the past.

[@matthew1182]

It was then on this day, a young Valdimir Putin vowed revenge.

[@mustaphachelfi]

At that time, America believed that it would dominate the world forever, but little did it know that the Chinese giant was building a great power. Then Russia came back to the fore, stronger than the Soviet Union, and finally BRICS dealt the final blow to America.

[@yessir889]

Current russia is certainly not stronger than the USSR

[@spkanava]

91

[@stxfdt1240]

​@@yessir889umm no

[@Filthy_Freeaboo]

No one wants to read your contrarian fanfic.

[@1f5sda]

I was ten months and twenty four days old when this happened!

[@tylerlozano9849]

I was born in 1990 so I was so glad I didn’t have to watch the Burt the Turtle videos and Duck and Cover thanks to Reagan and Bush for the ending of the Cold War

[@hueyfreeman1983]

Thank Gorbachev, if that prick never sold his country out for mcdonalds the cold war never would have ended

[@spkanava]

91

[@hello7522]

Bush and Reagan where horrible presidents that didn’t end the Cold War.

[@Froggediah]

Duck- *pssh pssh* and cooover! Duck- *pssh pssh* and cooover!

[@jake8855]

Those two idiots didn't end the Cold War. The Soviet Union collapsed because its model wasn't sustainable. The reagan cultists will ridiculously tell you it was all because of him.

[@Nedyaj]

Yo that's the Black Ops guy

[@V0ID5d]

America’s Christmas present

[@jonathank3593]

This aged well

[@maxdepasquale2351]

George Bush, you were not perfect, yet you are missed. Especially when compared to certain members of your party today.

[@ThatShadyBaldBoi]

THIS IS THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER IN MANKIND

[@derekgornall]

I don't understand how this guy lost a 2nd term...

[@JML6988]

Clinton outcampaigned him, basically.

[@thatonerampartmain8843]

He was out of touch with the working class and youth. Of course the no need taxes promise was broken and the economy wasn’t great around this time. He was also fairly boring and uncharismatic compared to Reagan. America just needed a change to a more youthful, and understanding president which made Clinton win. It also didn’t help that Bush didn’t debate well

[@Twentythousandlps]

He had a "wishy washy" personality. Later known as "low energy".

[@hectorlopez1069]

His son shouldn't have won a second term.

[@Dxva-]

All parts in the Black Ops 6 trailer 0:00 3:01 6:49 7:05

[@hmshood9212]

1991 thru 2001 was America at its peak. Before the dark times

[@Yobbie72]

no honey, the 1980s under REAGAN was the peak.