The Cold War: A Brief History (Thoughts + Commentary)

[@55itsme]

It's unfortunate in my opinion that the creators of this video chose not to name names. The leaders who spurred the policies that drove the Cold War were fascinating individuals. Humans make stories (true or fictional) come alive!

[@mattgames7543]

One thing that is worth noting is that the Cuban missile crisis didn't just start because the USSR decided to take advantage, they were actually responding to the US placing missiles in Turkey. JFK's brother facilitated talks and agreed for the US to quietly remove their missiles from Turkey, making the USSR happy with turning their own missiles around.

[@black.sasuke.uchiha]

Yes, she brought back the “click👉🏿” thingy! I brought it up under a previous video, I’m so glad it’s back!

[@__Ted]

I love the short intros, but it just shows how fucked my attention span is, because I like it so much.💀

[@erock7073]

Nah, I think it's just that we find it satisfying seeing the content we clicked on right away without a digression to another topic. It's something I love about this channel.

[@nicholasrolo886]

This channel gives the vibe of "kinda like going to College" but also being fun! 👍

[@melbeasley9762]

I was a soldier in the British Army of The Rhine (BAOR), Should the Soviets have crossed the border, the life expectancy of the regiment was 48 hours. The thanks we all got was to see the regiment, along with many others destroyed by cuts.

[@sangfroidian5451]

I'm confused, are you objecting to the peace dividend cuts and that the British armed forces should have been maintained at the same level despite Soviets and Warsaw Pact no longer being a threat? After World War 2 in June 1945, do you think the 2.9 million men in the British Army should have been maintained under arms after the elimination of the Nazi threat as thanks from a grateful nation? For how long and for what purpose?

[@Lesminster]

One caviat. We, Poles, don't call it "liberation" what Russia did to us during and after ww2 ;) Worth noting that NATO has grown because countries wanted to join, not because they were forced on gun point, as what was pretty common practice in USSR.

[@NoProtocol]

Thanks for adding!

[@franscott3122]

lesminster ty for this comment. Nothing sums up the cold war more than this.

[@mattsmith5421]

Poland really got he short end of the stick in ww2 bad just before it and just as bad after it

[@MrVvulf]

It's a shame that partly from personal shortcomings, and partly pure politics, Lech Wałęsa never really delivered on the promises of the 1980s and later. Still, I assume people in Poland are happy NOT to be under the thumb of Russia today.

[@juliastr5568]

​@@MrVvulf We are happy to be in NATO for sure, but the war in Ukraine is very scary if you live in Poland, so close to it.

[@douglasszot8294]

Dear Miss No Protocol, the first video of yours that I found on youtube was your review of the “The Fourth Turning”. So, I read it and now I’m hooked on your video reviews. I love your explanations and your facial expressions as you do it. As a former Social Studies Teacher, I’m impressed by your literary recommendations on this video. Thank you.

[@Cy5208]

I know people have short attentions spans and sometimes short clips can convey the essentials but with complex topics like this more time is needed.

[@YuryVVV]

NP: "It's not Netflix, the other one... *buffering* Amazon!" HBO: Am I a joke to you?

[@earthwormandruw]

Hulu: "What am I? chopped liver?"

[@chrischris7003]

Yes, yes HBO is a joke to me

[@jimmyboy131]

I grew up in the 80s, graduating high school in '89. During the Cold War a constant fear, even if it was underlying the surface, was sudden nuclear war. That was partly cause for my anxiety issues I had from childhood through young adulthood into college. In '82 or '83-ish there was a TV movie called The Day After, which was about exactly that, a nuclear war, focusing on some place in Nebraska or somewhere in the midwest. To a growing adolescent that movie was terrifying. But it encapsulates the fear that drove the Cold War.

[@julius43461]

I love The day after. Still love watching that movie occasionally.

[@ravenward626]

Crazy that the sort of world ending ordinance of the cold war is still out there in one form or another. But at least the threat of mutually assured destruction and strategic second strike capability provides some comforting stability.

[@jimmyboy131]

@@ravenward626 "the threat of mutually assured destruction and strategic second strike capability provides some comforting stability." That's the thinking that dominated the Cold War, MAD, mutually assured destruction. And that's why it was terrifying, because it wasn't going to be one or two cities destroyed, we knew it was going to be all of them. There was no escape.

[@viikmaqic]

@@jimmyboy131 Never been afraid of mutually assured destruction. Why fear something you "cannot" control? thats just how my mind reacts to those situations.

[@sunshynff]

@@jimmyboy131 ....That's not what MAD is, yes that's the scenario always played out in the movies and news, back then, that picture burned in our brains of the crude LED lights going in an arch across a world map, and a program named Joshua asking Matthew Broderick "Would you like to play a game of Tic-Tac-Toe this time Dr. Falcon"? I mean I guess back then it was possible that worldwide nuclear war could start due to a global Mexican stand off with everyone pointing their guns at each other, but very unlikely. And not even less so today. But MAD was came about with countries gaining nuclear triad capabilities (ability to fire response nukes from air, land and subs) meaning even if USSR was to send half it's missiles at the U.S. mainland and surprise us blowing up all our missile silo's, we'd still have enough nukes airborne and underwater, to destroy there country too, and vice versa. That's another reason I thought it amusing that people were freaking out about the Chinese "spy balloons" taking pictures of our missile silos and now knowing where they're at, every country makes their land based nukes visible on purpose, to prove that have them, as a deterrent. FYI we are officially in Cold War 2.0 as of this past fall.

[@SonOfMuta]

4:38 Only an armistice agreement was signed. A peace treaty still has not been signed, the Korean War is still going on

[@owen753]

Graham Greene is a fantastic recommendation. He wrote some brilliant novels. Try also, "The Quiet American" which is set in Vietnam and explores America's first involvement there through the cold war lens. I just love his writing and characterisation. His book, "The End of the Affair", which has nothing to do with the cold war (at least not the political kind), has an ending which haunts me (in a good way) all these years later. For a good laugh, maybe try "Travels with my Aunt". Final recommendation - John LeCarré - the Smiley trilogy or "The spy who came in from the cold" can't be overlooked. He's the epitome of "cold war" novelists for me - and the human condition.

[@NoProtocol]

I’ve only read that one book from him, I’m going to look into the others right now! Thank you Owen (:

[@josemorales5117]

​​@@NoProtocol there's a great KZbin channel that showcases the military interventions in Latin America called: "Intervenciones gringas" is in Spanish by an American. Is pretty good. Another one I do recommend is Johnny Harrys and his series: "how the US stoled" this 'one is in English. Both are pretty good and informative and shows how low our government can be n other to bring peace and democracy to the world.

[@beneficent2557]

@@NoProtocol If you like entertaining analysis of historical films, you might try the "History Buffs" You Tube Channel.

[@erock7073]

You're absolutely right, it's almost impossible to discuss any historical events without some level of subjective interpretation, which different individuals may not agree on. Discussing why a particular event occurred or action was taken nearly always requires interpretation since there is no scientific experimentation that could falsify a hypothesis. We can't test for certain how things would have been different but for some factor. The whys of history are often some of the most fascinating questions to ponder, but are hard to definitely answer. E.g. why did collapse of the USSR happen in 1991 and not sooner/later? I'm surprised this video didn't mention Chernobyl at all.

[@kikirikikirlafsdfskd]

Lot of factors, include failed economic reforms (in spite of very successfull chinese reforms), failed war in Afghanistan, internal problems etc. and also, which surprised me was not mentioned in video - failed coup in 1991 after which attempt to reform USSR in to more democratic "New Union Treaty" system was completely dismissed.

[@TheGabrielPT]

The Chernobyl disaster probably was one of the causes of the collpase of the Soviet Union. That and having an empire with many different countries with different ethnicities and cultures, that's always a time bomb

[@erock7073]

I've heard this cited as a major factor by many historians as well. I'm surprised the video didn't mention the most significant nuclear disaster in history.

[@terrywbreedlove]

Socialism caused the fall of the USSR. It is a disaster

[@romanmir01]

no, it was just a consequence of having an insane system that was falling apart. ussr (where I was born) collapsed because of unworkable economics, lack of property rights, central command economy. Chernobyl was only one of many disasters over decades in that place.

[@erock7073]

@@romanmir01 do you think it significantly undermined the USSR's internal credibility among people living within the Soviet Union? You're absolutely right, it was one of many disasters and mistakes of the gov. But in the era of glasnost, was the discontent of citizenry more contagious?

[@Tijuanabill]

@@erock7073 It also didn't mention the source of technology for both sides: Captured German scientists and their papers.

[@LocaLGh0sT]

I love the content and comments by this mysterious woman from the Internets

[@fredklein3829]

That history video was interesting and well done. One detail they flubbed was the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan which took place in 1988 not 1989. Grenada is a country that she can add to her list of Latin American countries invaded by U.S. & A.

[@kevinmarsh8922]

My father served in the navy in WWII. He used the GI bill and became an FBI Agent. He said that almost the entire agencies focus through the fifties was on anti communist activities. When I was in school we would do duck and cover drills, in case there was a nuclear attack. The Cuban Missile Crisis was terrifying.

[@YuryVVV]

Russian here. NATO recently accepted Finland into its ranks, making the total member count 31. And let me just say, the fact that NATO had not only continued its existence after the fall of the USSR, but also got all over Russian borders is something that bothers our glorious leaders a lot. The whole thing is very complicated and the roots go very deep, but looking at what is happening in the world currently, it's clear that the Cold War never actually ended. It was just put on pause for a bit 🙃

[@tomasazevedo1979]

glorious leaders? hmm

[@YuryVVV]

​@@tomasazevedo1979 Communist joke. I don't actually think they're glorious. If anything.

[@fewwiggle]

"all over Russian borders" Please let your 'glorious leaders' know that only Estonia and Latvia had been added on the Russian border until the Ukraine war -- that's a piss poor job of encirclement . . . . :-)

[@YuryVVV]

​​@@fewwiggle You realize missiles don't necessarily have to be placed on neighboring countries' territory to be a cause for concern, right? Right? I hope so.

[@fewwiggle]

@@YuryVVV "borders" C'mon, you know you weren't originally referring to missiles, you were referring to land borders. Regardless, weren't the missiles in response to something that USSR/Russia did?

[@taal1979]

I'm watching a documentary made by Oliver Stone called The Untold Truth of the United States. Very interesting. For one, the Cold War could have been avoided. President Roosevelt had found a middle ground between the US and the Sovjet Union. He and Stalin were getting along. Stalin was even known as uncle Joe. But then Roosevelt died and Truman succeeded him and things turned 180 degrees. (there is much more too this story though) If your interested, Its on Apple TV. Great reaction.

[@JLCra87]

Hollywood is the governments mouthpiece and has been since the early days. You once had independent media who held govt, and other industry accountable. Now Hollywood and Mainstream media work hand in hand. I'd argue the two are a force of their own in our country.

[@shanenolan5625]

Thanks. Ridley Scott made a great mini series covering the cold War. ( over the decades) cia , m16 . Vs kgb .

[@NoProtocol]

That sounds interesting, I’ll have to look out for it!

[@shanenolan5625]

@No Protocol oh there is a movie ( directed by Robert de Niro) ( the good Shepard) it covers the career of one of the founders of the cia ( same character appeared in that ridley Scott miniseries) from his yale college days in the late 30s till the 60s . With oss during ww2 and the beginning of the Cold War. ( Matt damon, angelica Jolie, zoe saldana, John Turturro. John hurt . And Joe pesci and de Niro as well ) . Michael keaton played the character in the mini series. . But it both covered Latin American interference. . Oh a good movie clip . (,one KZbin) if you search. ( jfk Mr x Washington scene) ( 10 min ) Donald Sunderland plays a retired army intelligence ( black operations ) guy He gives Kevin Costners character a brief history of the cold War. Propaganda, foreign interference. Ect. Its a wonderful clip.

[@UltimateYEC]

He didn't cover the effect of Chernobyl on the Soviets. It had a huge impact on their confidence and led to distrust, which some stay started the ball rolling.

[@jpworldtrvlr9801]

Great reaction as usual! Something that may help answer your question @ 6:14 is to watch some content on Operation Condor, it wasn’t just The Banana Wars. Most Americans don’t even know about Condor but yeah, we’ve also done pretty awful things in the name of fighting “communism”. Coming from an American that is against real Communism…

[@JJFO1]

love it, great as usual!!!

[@NoProtocol]

Thanks for watching (:

[@Fredsausage886]

I learnt alot , thanks 👍,noticed your having a great hair day 👌 nice

[@NoProtocol]

Thanks hahaha I appreciate that! Also I’m glad you liked the video (:

[@ezrapark9992]

9:33 Napoleon and petroleum. The Petroleonic wars am I right?

[@alolkoydesigns]

Growing up during the cold war was terrifying

[@brentandvuk]

In the late seventies, I going through some training which we spent a week learning Soviet/Warsaw Pact tactics and equipment. We were shower some movies which the soviets, played by Americans were always doing bad things and killing American wounded and POWs. Very similar the WWII movies. Love your choices of videos. Thank you

[@brentandvuk]

You mention you might do a video on killer Whales. Here is an awesome video on killer whales, kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZrQdJaorL6rmqc From the channel Real Science.

[@Belleplainer]

The non-aligned category is very misleading. Many of those countries, while not having formal alliances with either the US or USSR, were decidedly more favorable to one side over the other. Very few countries in the world during the 1960s and 1970s were on fairly similar terms with both the US and USSR.

[@Rnybro]

Book recommendation: Lies My Teacher Told Mr by James W. Loewen

[@Zomfoo]

You are very charismatic.

[@antimonycup7066]

It's not just the angle that changes, it's the amount. If 'the message' takes precedence over telling a good story, or if you're willing to break established style or canon of an IP to fit your message better, I will not consume your product.

[@Mdub_actual]

I love the history ones

[@ontrack16]

I like watching Nebula for Modern Conflicts and Real Life Lore. Both handle current and historic geo-political movements. I like watching your reacts. :) Thank you! P.S For your Jeopardy pursuit, there are currently 31 countries participating in NATO as of April 2023 per their website. :)

[@ravenward626]

Noam Chomsky has a bunch of lectures and interviews floating around youtube. In the days of early internet and it seemed like Chomsky had a super power being able to read the news in so many languages. He said in one interview that by reading the same news in different papers he could start to see the biases in coverage and interpretation of different news sources in different countries. Funny you should mention the growth of NATO. Sometimes invitations are made to practice with non-NATO members; joint exercises and the like. On more than one occasion both Azerbaijan and Armenia were invited to the same events. The two countries have been in an on and off conflict for at least the last half century. Typically one or both would politely decline the invitation.

[@jirinovotny653]

recommended reading: anne applebaum - iron curtain. she had access to commie archives in germany, poland and hungary, and since commies loved to document everything, she gives a pretty good picture of how these states were turned into colonies

[@NAFO_MythicPlague]

Let's see what video you did today Always love your videos.

[@NoProtocol]

Thanks for being here!

[@kodishmc]

very good

[@gazb87yorkshiresalt48]

Looking forward to your reaction to this flower! 🙏🇬🇧✌

[@trannigan3349]

I didn't know the Cold War started as early as 1949. I thought it was around the mid 60's.

[@NoProtocol]

And here I was believing it started in 1945-1947

[@romeroorda7234]

[@davester1432]

FYI- 31 member nations in NATO. BTW, your last video had a line in the description that "The channel is moving". Is it your channel that is moving, or is Casual Geographic moving?

[@pheobebuffet3719]

We love Geo

[@ianbett3853]

YYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY! She did the winky pointy thingy again! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! 🙂

[@C2112-s7y]

No mention of Yalta then!

[@demonic_myst4503]

Greece joining the western block was inevitable as britains royal family were allied with the greek royal family

[@noNdeSCRIpt732]

are you willing to briefly sing on an episode? looking for your weakness or lack of aptitude. it's only fair. great show.

[@matof1428]

Not a word about the Hungarian uprising and the Prague Spring, and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968?

[@vrvaughn]

I was in Russia, Leningrad specifically, in 1990… I found a broken country with people lining up in front of stores not even knowing what they were lining up for… The official buildings and official tourist venues were shown off, but if you got outside of the handlers care you saw the truth… apartment buildings in dire need of upkeep. Soldiers and police willing to trade official uniforms for dollars or blue jeans… I accidentally overstayed my visa by a day and got out of the country by giving the Russian immigration official some cigarettes and some lipsticks for his girlfriend. I was there as a guest of Lenfilm and their technology in film production was leftover from the forties.. old American and English equipment that had been dumped on the international market. It was a country that had cleaned out its citizens for the good of the state and its rulers. And Putin is repeating Russian history again.

[@c1n1kdtm50]

Such. A. Bullshit.

[@cheebees]

Lol

[@Pietervandebuurt]

Imagine believing NATO propaganda about Putin, but no surprise if the west is ruled by a alzheimer patient.

[@larrymustvedt2217]

I see you haven't moved yet: your picture's still on the wall behind you; and you said, if I remember correctly, you weren't going to take the pic with you. O, well, if I'm wrong, it won't be nothin' new to me -- it won't be the first time. Anyway, I thought it was a pretty good overview. So, until the next time -- keep on smilin'!

[@NoProtocol]

I recorded this video before I left, I have indeed moved already. Thanks for remembering (:

[@alisahinnnn]

I want you to cover, Sultanate Of Women video by @Kings&Generals

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

After the addition of Finland, 31 countries are in NATO. Sweden is currently seeking to be added, and when the war in the Ukraine ends it may also seek to be added.

[@SimonJM]

It certainly takes me back ... though not to the actual start of the Cold War, I'm not THAT old!!!!, but to enough of it to have a memory of the vague, nebulous fear of MAD. It struck me that a bit of the language used seemed to be anti-US in flavour, but on reflection I suspect that it was, actually, pretty unbiased and just that we tended to get the pro-west rhetoric fed to us!

[@xFurashux]

As a "fun" fact I think in terms of sports USA had nothing on Eastern Block when it comes to wanting to win with USSR. For Americans USSR was just a world rival, for people from Eastern Block it was the oppressor, the Big Brother, the country that is standing on the way of their freedom. Winning against them was worth more than gold. Americans were thought hate towards USSR, people from Eastern Block and occupied countries were born in it.

[@drewcliff82]

When are you going to do the warm war. 🤔

[@theobserver86]

Propaganda has gone beyond movies it's permeated every aspect of media at this point

[@janne-villekinnunen1118]

In 4th of April 2023 Finland join Nato and became 31st member of NATO

[@sunshynff]

NATO started with 12 countries, and true they have grown, but they only added 3 countries from the time they formed in the 50s, until 1999 when like 12 countries joined in a very short time period after the collapse of the USSR, and all these brand new countries, formerly Soviet countries, wanting protection from Russian and Putin. Also we're officially in cold war 2.0 as of last fall.

[@Benboy1980]

This one, or the last one?

[@shanenolan5625]

Movie's are definitely used as propaganda tools .

[@Mikistly]

Too many inconvenient fact from both sides where left out (most from the western side) but a nice video nonetless

[@SonOfMuta]

0:29 And now there's only one Superpower in the world. 🇺🇲

[@demonic_myst4503]

America wasnt only country with nukes britain had nukes just after ww2 ended almost any tech either britain or ameeica made in ww1 and ww2 was given to the other country aswell like britain and america worked together to make tanks

[@alsardar2740]

It's funny how he just painted IRAN blue but didn't say anything about it 😁

[@Mattdewit]

They also did not mention the interventions in South America that NP already pointed out in the video. I also thought they were going to mention the US supporting the appartheid system when they mentioned Soviet influence in Africa but they skipped that as well.

[@alsardar2740]

@@Mattdewit true! It's crazy how the entire world was engaged in the cold war

[@sunshynff]

I should really watch to the end before commenting..lol. 56 countries, that we know of in total since 1945, that we have meddled in their affairs, 36 in Latin America alone. Here's two really good docu-shorts about it.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6jcm5-jeqaWj68 kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6O8dIKJjd11b6c Oh yeah, I saw you kind of get a puzzled look and repeat the word "Mujahideen", it's an umbrella term of armed Islamic fundamentalist groups. You should really look into the Russian Afghanistan war, in the 70's and 80's. the guy skipped over there in the end. Or even do a google image search for Afghanistan 1973. The pictures are black n white, but look like it could be downtown L.A. or Las Vegas. We wanted the Russians to lose that war so bad, our CIA armed and trained dozens of Mujahideen groups in Afghanistan in order to defeat the Russians, which they did, afterwards they had nothing to do, so the individual Mujahideen groups joined together, and decided to call themselves....?? If you guessed the Taliban, you get a gold star!

[@Mattdewit]

I know the video is titled 'A Brief History' but that was a big oversimplification of the cold war.

[@NoProtocol]

Yes, it was brief. Summing every nuance of a war into 7 minutes would be quite a difficult task. It gives one things to look into however! I’ve been on a deep dive since I posted lol

[@Mattdewit]

​@@NoProtocol There is a very interesting channel by a British veteran who was stationed in West Berlin, here is a link www.youtube.com/@AndyMcloone/videos

[@NoProtocol]

Thanks for this Matthias (:

[@jirinovotny653]

Yeah, it is a mystery why former Russian colonies wish to ally themselves with anybody else as fast as possible..

[@andreimordovskoi9192]

"Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies" sounds like propaganda

[@NoProtocol]

Lol well it’s in the title

[@raineramelung7380]

I was a child of cold war. In West Germany we fear the nuclear war every day. Sirens - checks every month.... A feeling of,, no future,, as a young men in the 80,s....thers a song about,, U K Subs-warhead,,.... Or 99 Red Ballons,, by Nena,,...

[@NoProtocol]

99 Luftballoons by Nena is one of those I’ll never skip if it comes on the radio

[@wildcard7285]

Sweden will become nr 32 during the summer ,Swede here.

[@Pietervandebuurt]

Then send those Kurdish terrorists to Turkey

[@andleaveiton]

👍

[@johnnyb8412]

The video totally missed the Falklands when USA put a comunist dictator in charge of Argentina and British won that fight without no help

[@madmun376]

I left a comment on American interventionism. military intrventions or invasions since the war (over 60 of them) and some of the terrible things done. and youtube took it down probably too sensitve when i criticised your president so there we go no criticism allowed i guess.

[@traian2041]

Those multiple revolts in Europe were organized by the US (CIA), they didn't spontaneously occur. The USSR tried to stop them but were a bit behind on the ball and only managed to send some spies, KGB officers to take take control of the government organizations and people loyal to them, and snipers. Heaving lived through it was so obvious, even at the time, but it's hardly ever mentioned in the history books, if at all. Even now they're trying to stir anti west sentiments through bought politicians and some of the media in the countries bordering Ukraine.

[@ianbett3853]

SOOOOOO DaMn CUTE!!!

[@williambranch4283]

Cold War 2.0 started in 2019.

[@Tijuanabill]

The dramatic advances in technology both sides achieved, by defeating Germany and taking their science, and scientists, is a massively over looked part of this story, in the video.

[@kayzeaza]

Weird how the map did not show Canada as an allied nation even tho they were in nato lol

[@MrVvulf]

6:11 - An important follow up question to that would be - "Do the people of Venezuela WISH the US had intervened to prevent Hugo Chavez coming into power?" The prosperous Venezuela of 30 years ago is gone. Communism completely obliterated that economy in only 20 years. From an article in The Guardian (a "leans slightly left" newspaper): "On 6 December 1998, Hugo Chávez proclaimed a new dawn of social justice and people power. “Venezuela’s resurrection is under way and nothing and nobody can stop it,” the leftwing populist [Chavez] told a sea of euphoric supporters after his landslide election victory. Two decades on, those dreams are in tatters."

[@kikirikikirlafsdfskd]

Do you think people elected Chávez because they wanted to be poor? Or because they already were poor and image of "prosperous Venezuela of 30 years ago" is false? (Caracazo, 1989) But yes, current regime is even much worse than what did CAP in 1989.

[@MrVvulf]

@@kikirikikirlafsdfskd Well, since I know many Venezuelan expatriates, I'll take their word for it that things are FAR worse now than before Chavez. Alternatively, you could read the wikipedia entry, part of which states: "...From the 1950s to the early 1980s, the Venezuelan economy experienced a steady growth that attracted many immigrants, with the nation enjoying the highest standard of living in Latin America. The situation reversed when oil prices collapsed during the 1980s." [Government sanctions aimed at curtailing "capital flight" worsened the situation, followed shortly thereafter by Chavez.] Lastly, the entry - "Venezuela's economy has been in a state of total economic collapse since 2013." Edit: The quotes are specifically from the page entitled, "Economy of Venezuela".

[@kikirikikirlafsdfskd]

@@MrVvulf Where I said current or Chávez situation is better than pre-Chávez? I pointed that pre-Chávez situation in 1980s (oil price collapse) and 1990s (banking collapse) dismis myth of prosperous Venezuela and were causes of Chávez victory. People dont pick populists and socialists, because they are bored, but because there is socioeconomical and political supply and demand situation and that was even in Venezuela during economic difficulties of that time. Ofcourse, in this case, "medicine" was much worse than disease itself.

[@MrGadfly772]

This video has some gross distortions due to it's desire to try to look balanced. The Soviet Union did NOT support Greek Communists for example...that was part of why they failed

[@mustafamufasa5002]

İs it really ended ?the cold war? İ don't think so

[@mrsharris79]

There is 32 nato

[@gertstraatenvander4684]

Oh yeah, NATO is sooo defensive even though almost everyone is in it...

[@johanvanaelst8976]

A good follow up to this could be the story of how britain nuked the USA, twice! No joke!

[@jameswelsh598]

Wow this is way to simple

[@NoProtocol]

This is a 7 minute summary. Feel free to add anything

[@LordStuba]

Yugoslavia was NEVER part of the USSR !

[@theobserver86]

She's so rare

[@logicalspark3496]

Thetes another one called Hulu...a 3rd

[@Van_Wilder]

Not gonna bother watching the video - I may end up agreeing or disagreeing with its content. That a side, my point is that as I have gotten much older, I’ve learnt that history is not always what is read in the history books (or what’s documented in media) for as the saying goes “history is written by the victors” which in turn can also be translated as “not always being the truth”. The same goes for these type of videos. This video could very well be factually correct but equally it can easily be someone’s emotional belief, bias and untrue version of the facts. I guess, the point is that I wish that more people when they do watch these kind of videos, watch the news or listen to podcasts etc. that they not take everything to heart and at face value but instead, do a little bit more of research, taking a non-bias approach before making up their own minds. A great example is how America through its media, a well-run well-oiled propaganda machine, has for decades if not centuries, lied to its own people convincing them about their elite position on the global stage citing the notion that every other country on this planet is inferior to them. You know, that standing joke across every country around the world where it’s said “Americans live in their own little bubble where they are clueless about everything that happens anywhere else other than State side” and even that we know is very questionable. We see another example playing out right now in real time…the Western Ukrainian/Russian/China narratives. All of it lies, all of it false. Hell while we at it, why not throw Israel and Palestine into the mix. And if you still unsure about my rant - just refer back to the Iraqi war and the non existence of weapons of mass destruction or how the 911 conspiracy theorists are right now in 2023 being proven right that the CIA was party to this attack. Always check your source, always check who they serve, their political or ideological beliefs and follow the money.

[@pheobebuffet3719]

the original video isn't made by an American he sounded South Asian or middle eastern but you wouldn't know that because you're so egotistical that you think your opinion is worth more than the researched topic. Everyone should do their own research but also listen to other opinions. Do better Van.

[@ВојиславРистић]

Što zovu hladni rat kad nije bilo globalnog zahlađenja

[@vrvaughn]

You have one thing backwards…the USA didn’t meddle in Latin America AGAINST communism. They meddled to make it safe for capitalism.

[@pheobebuffet3719]

"Anti-communism" literally means against communism. The United States deployed its own troops to the Dominican Republic and Grenada and waged a sustained war on Sandinista Nicaragua AGAINST communism. Being against communism keeps it "safe for capitalism" as you say but that doesnt make it any less against communism.

[@ajsen977]

I do not understand why the USSR did not use genocide and robbery, for example, Romania, Poland, and especially Germany, they deserved that and their people, too, and thanks to this, the people would be in prosperity and not in poverty, it was possible to take tactics from the Americans and Great Britain. communism is the most ideotic thing invented by mankind.

[@the_occasional1764]

The interesting bit about NATO expansion is that its all Russias fault. During the cold war those countries who did not follow the Kremlin line were invaded and "normalised" (Hungary in 1956; Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afganistan in 1979 etc). The Russians like to paint it as American expansionism, but the truth is, everybody just wanted to be safe from them. Russians never respected smaller nations, so the moment the iron curtain fell all the smaller nations started preparing to join NATO. The geopolitical implications of this are severe, sure, but if the Kremlin did not behave like this for the past centuries without any change whatsoever it might not come to this. (Just imagine the Polish mindset after beeing forced into the Russian empire, with all the repression that went with it. They lived like that for centuries and after gaining freedom were immediately attacked by the Soviets. Of course the entire central and eastern europe wants to be in NATO, they all know what it means to be "with" the Russians.) Edit: To clarify the USSR was in its policy towards other nation basically Russian empire 2.0 but with a different ideology.

[@jaredrobinson7071]

shoot every movie/ tv show these past 5 or 6 years was full of propaganda just the woke kind.

[@demonic_myst4503]

Cuba is more complex its not just meh stop communism two major issues one many cubans fled to america and wanted their country back america armed thos people And second was rusia wanted to put nukes in cuba to nuke washignton dc

[@anonymouse8826]

The people who fled Cuba after the revolution were all rich land and slave owners that were pissed at Castro from giving their land to peasants and freeing the slaves. It's why the Gusanos in Florida are the most fanatical right wing fascists in the US to this day.

[@mortensen1961]

How many times has the U.S. interfered in Latin America? Yes. . . .

[@Swarmah]

Half of nato is former soviet union countries or western block countries.

[@bigshorty4855]

1/6th of the world? Antarctica doesn't count anymore?

[@putivuelta9428]

You're assuming its Antarctica. It's probably counting South & North America as one continent as many non-American countries do

[@donrichards271]

@@putivuelta9428 I don't think the number of continents matters. Just the percentage of surface area.

[@putivuelta9428]

@@donrichards271 then why name Antarctica specifically? It could have been Asia or Oceania in that case

[@kikirikikirlafsdfskd]

USSR = 22.4 million km2 Landmass = 148.9 million km2 Yes, its sounds like Antarctica is joke.

[@donrichards271]

@@putivuelta9428 I didn't it was correct, just my take on his reasoning.

[@mark.r]

And now Russia wants the old USSR back together but evil mr Putins failing so badly 😁

[@anonymouse8826]

Putin is an anti-communist. You can discount any one immediately that says that the current Russia / NATO proxy war is due to Putin wanting to reestablish the USSR as someone who has no understanding of history or geopolitics.