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Actually, France almost didn't get the Marshal Plan money... because France wanted to keep its empire. Hell, the current Republic was basically installed via a military coup.
With the 4th Republic falling into pieces, a military coup was the least worst choice out there. At least De Gaulle didn't overstep his powers too much; he is popular enough that he could have turned France into something akin to Francoist Spain or Estado Novo Portugal...
Yugoslavia was not part of the Eastern bloc. It was the issue of Greece(and Tito's desire for independence from Moscow and the informbiro) that led to the Tito-Stalin conflict, until Stalin's death Yugoslavia cooperated with the West and was in its own little cold war with Stalin.(I felt the need to say this because the video gives the impression that Yugoslavia was a Soviet satellite)
Yugoslavia was in fact the leader of non-aligned countries of the cold war. I visited Tito's mansion in Croatia (it was turned into a museum) and it was mostly filled with hundreds of photos of Tito and different political leaders from all the continents. He must have been a great diplomat to successfuly create and expand an alliance like that
@@antonikudlicki1100 The "non-aligned" were very irrelevant, most members tried to lobby for one of the two sides in the cold war they supported. It can be compared to the League of Nations, or perhaps even the Commonwealth. The only benefit was propaganda for the governments in their own countries. And Yugoslavia itself, when Stalin was succeeded by Khrushchev, decided to strengthen economic and political ties with the Soviet Union. (Most of those deals and trades were bad for the companies of both countries, and since the companies were state-owned, it hurt both countries; only a few corrupt people really profited from it). That's why I focused only on Stalin's Soviet Union in my comment. As for Tito, he was a true pragmatic politician rather than a die-hard communist. As for his reputation in the world, he could thank the effectiveness of the Yugoslav partisans who were the most successful and effective (although not the largest) resistance movement in WW2, and they say he was charismatic as well.
@@antonikudlicki1100you have to be a great diplomat if you can manage to bring a culturally diverse region such as the Balkans together and cooperate with each other for decades without huge problems.
@@lazarpetrovic8340the non aligned movement was mostly just a club where said countries didn't want to take a firm side in either camp, like India not wanting to be part of the western bloc mostly because England was in the club. Many African nations for similar reasons.
The League of Nations failed where the UN didn't specifically BECAUSE the LoN tried to have the power to supercede national sovereignty. As a result...no one really wanted to buy into it in case that power got wielded against them. When the UN said from day 1 "yeah we can't really do anything beyond giving you a harsh recommendation to knock it off", people warmed up to it as an institution.
@@SiPakRubah No, the UN was specifically designed such that if any one member of the permenant 5 members of the security council votes against something, the measure falls through. This was by design as a stopgap in the system.
Mt grandfather was a pilot on plane #45 as he told me during the Berlin Airlift! He told me how nerve wracking it was because they could see soviet planes and air defenses pointing at them the whole time
"You can't leave, the doors are locked." Jack knew exactly how to handle a raid sponsorship. Be funny, don't be overhyped, and say Doom Tower in a silly voice.
the first Cold war conflict of goals between the Soviets and the west took a turn for the worse when in 1944 when the Polish Warsaw uprising against the Nazi's was disowned by Stalin and refused help, when Stalin refused to cooperate with the Polish government in exile in London.
Warsaw uprising was staged without Soviet help on purpose, I'm not gonna say it wasn't the first bout of tension, but the polish leadership did it to their own people on the ground
It was a little more complicated, Stalin hated the prewar polish government which was a right wing anti communist dictatorship. That said the Soviets did drop supplies for the polish in the city (though the Germans captured most of these) and tried to take the city but their logistics were stretched too thin. They weren’t able to cross the Vistula since the Nazis were too well dug in and as already mentioned the Soviet units that were present weren’t capable of further offensive action.
@@nestormakhno9266 as far as I know, those "Attempts" at aiding the Warsaw uprising was put on for show to the western allies and not allocated enough resources to be a real attempt
I think I’m a little younger than Jack, cause growing up we did manage to get to the Cold War but I was always left asking “so why does everybody always seem so concerned about Serbia”
Churchill constantly planning an invasion of the USSR didn't help with Stalins paranoia. Stalin distrusted the west because he feared they would attempt an attack, and well, he wasn't totally wrong, at least with Winston.
Its worth noting the US wasnt just the most industrialised country on earth whos industry had gone unmolested during the war, they also had drained the coffers of a lot of its future allies during the cash and carry portion of involvement. The marshall plan went beyond just giving it back but had they not dumped big ol piles of capital back into European economies they would likely have been very dysfunctional from having no cash/gold reserves AND being bombed to rubble. It was equal parts a bribe to stay in the US sphere of influence as it was training wheels for their economies. The reasoning being that if their economies were failing and uncertainty ruled the communists would have much more support than if economies were booming and people felt like their lives were getting better.
@@sgabigEurope bankcrupted itself during the war. They needed money to keep buying more stuff from the US so the US gave them a metric f u c k ton of money and then proceeded to sell them everything they needed.
The Soviet murdering the Polish officers in Kapteyn Forest and Stalin joking about it afterward kind of made Churchill realize he was in bed with a monster.
Picked up a university level "World History" textbook from the 70s at an antique store. The only time it talks about the world is the part where Europe conquers it. Otherwise it's hyper-capitalistic hyper-western-centric and bananas devoid of context. It feels like a self-affirming story book for imperialists rather than a piece of academia, and its a *university textbook.* Just thought you'd appreciate that info. The super smart grownups when you were growing up were basically teaching a curriculum of "white people with money did everything good for everyone forever, isn't that neat?" Your 70s education really adds to this context for me.
4:50 Stalin actually did keep his part of the deal, and betrayed communists in Greece, Italy, France.. That's why Tito got kicked out of the Comintern, he wouldn't accept this
"During the war, people were hopefull the rest of the century would be nothing but roses" I mean,they nearly got it right. It just took half a century longer then they though. Aka 1-2 generations. Which is about the normal amount of time for a society to fully adapt to a new situation.
Uh, were you asleep in February 2022? The "peace" at the end of the Cold War was just a momentary blip before a return to chaos. Cold wars and their ensuing conflicts on the periphery seem to be an inevitability in a world with nukes.
@@VioIetShift even including ukrain, afghanistan, israel and the pandemic, we still live in a wat more peacfull age then back then. And it IS compairable to a good age to live in.
Yeah it's not like everyone hated everyone for like fourty years beforehand. Not like most of the world funded the white army and the USSR funded communist rebels across the world after the 1920's.
@@MilkMan7300 Yes, although both sides thought the other was going to naturally fall to their side over time anyway, so it could have been nothing but a waiting game.
There is a chance it might've worked if none of the then current heads of government were in charge. All 3 were the direct catalysts to the war, even happening when their respective countries went full proxy conflicts to avoid direct nuclear Armageddon
@@MilkMan7300 Not necessarily. The US voted for the Khmer Rouge and Khmer Rouge dominated force to stay in the UN representation for Cambodia UN seat until 1993. The Khmer Rouge which have human rights violations list that would make Hitler atrocities look "humane". We see this time and times again is that the Cold war is not ideology based but simply two emerging world super power vying for power. Both "democratic" and "peaceful" nations that support or backed dictators, extremism and violent groups. Sometimes even against their "morale code", the moderate and liberal US would turn a blind eye to or even promote religious extremists inside the Mujahideen as long as it is directed toward the Soviet or even dictatorships that was sponsored and backed by the US. The Soviet didn't do much better either but they have been talked to death since they lost the cold war.
The Berlin airlift was amazing. British rationing actually played a huge part in it, along with sheer US air muscle, and experience gained through the airlifts to China during the war. I think at its peak, a C-47 was landing every 30 seconds or something.
Yeah if anything if FDR actually lived out his third term we probably wouldn't of had a cold war. Truman had a very itchy trigger finger towards the Soviets while FDR was very pragmatic and was willing to be cooperative with them.
@@samdherring id disagree. A half a year would have changed a lot. Hell Stalin and FDR even had secret agreements that were definitely not followed thru under Truman.
Important note, Yugoslavia was socialist and was actually kicked out of the soviet block because of their differences with Stalin's SSSR, their wish for greece to join them was because historically the southern slavs, especially Serbs, have been close to Greeks for centuries and wanted to try and merge with them.
Not really. France wasn't a part of the initial plan for the security council, mostly because the country was in ruins and ruled by a provisional government. On top of that the americans really didn't like them, Roosevelt hated De Gaulle. One of the main reasons they were added is that the british didn't want to be the only western european member on the council. That way they wouldn't be expected to play the "world police" in the region by themselves and wouldn't have to be too involved in continental Europe.
No alliance that includes the British will ever stand for justice. Unless there's no one else in that alliance, then it's the British Empire and it stands for money.
USSR wasn't against mitarism and expansionism. They annexed the baltic countries, started a war agains finland and jointly invaded poland with germany.
Oh let me guess "We fought the wrong enemy"? Because if USSR hadn't done all that, Germany would have a much bigger upper hand in the war and millions of slavs would be slaughtered and/or enslaved according to Generalplan Ost. Is this what you'd prefer to happen?
And the allies had the two biggest colonial empires in history of mankind. Only USA were against expansionism because they had already achieved the perfect borders
@@ciii4361 Yet they still actively expanded throughout their history, same manifest destiny. Not always by borders, but economically and politically. That's what capitalism and imperialism are.
With easter coming up maybe a video on the life and times of times of some Irish republicans. Or maybe even just figures important to Irish history like Brian Boru.
Great retelling! And as sokmeone born at the very end of it who knows who won it was still good to hear the whole thing as a whole thing and not bits and peices.
"You can't leave the doors are locked" on the Raid Shadow Legends ad feels like a cry for help with a year of hindsight. That game was 100% marketing but I'm glad you got the bread when you could. You deserve it.
My great-grandfather was the second person from his Romanian village to become a member of the Romanian Communist Party. He didn't do it because he believed in communism. In fact, during the war, he was a member of Ion Antonescu's guard regiment, the Romanian pro-Axis dictator. He entered in the party because that way he could more easily trade țuică (a Romanian kind of schnapps) for things stolen by the Soviet soldiers that were occupying the village. While he was doing his smuggling, Stalin forced King Michael to appoint an associate of Romania's communists as PM and then the communists started slowly to take over. And my grand-great father was taken by the wave might I say. At the elections of 1947 he was spying the voting booths from his village through some holes that were in the room's ceiling. Whenever someone cast a vote for an opposition party he gave a signal, then someone in the voting center put some white chalk powder on the voter's back and outside, the unfortunate marked voter was to take a beating from some policemen.
Mackinder's doctrine and true liberalism doctrine. Big industrialized countries can't compete with USA, USA can't allow to exist competitors or equal powers, hegemony is hegemony. Marshall's plan only existed to compete with the USSR, at the begining they wanted Morgenthau's plan for Europe, wich would condemn Germany to be a rural country.
Hi! Jack I don't know if you're going to see this but I think you will be really interesting if you consider talking about Simo Häyhä (the white death) He was Finnish sniper in the winter war of 1939 Just an idea to throw out there in the future. :> All right have an amazing day :-)
I remember learning about the start of the Cold War and the Berlin Airlift in secondary school. It's a very interesting topic and often gets overlooked
"and to America's credit it wasn't a bunch of coups it was money." Latin America enters the chat: Central America enters the chat: Africa enters the chat:
From the perspective of an Eastern European USSR started to install their friendly regimes starting 1944, as soon they deposed the leadership of the country that they "freed" on their way to Berlin. I can tell about the example of Romania, where initially the communists, a really fringe party, was forced on the Romanian elites to accept on their nationwide government after the Antonescu regime ended. And then, with each successive government (each if them lasting for month), by march 1945 the communists already had the government. One year and a half later, the king was deposed and România become a socialist Republic.
Arguably, the Cold War started during the Russian Civil War, when multiple countries invaded Russia to support the Whites against the Reds. Or when the USA dropped the bombs on Japan. Stalin's negotiatiors had worked out a Japanese surrender well before then, but the USA wanted to take credit and send a message to the USSR and rest of the world.
I'm sorry, I know this is a difficult topic to research, considering most of the material available is from, or based on material from the Cold War, and I deeply understand the struggle of trying to unravel what is propaganda and what is actual history from the era, but this isn't really adding to anyone's knowledge. Hel, making Stalin out to be the ruler of East Germany for example, and I don't mean any offense by this, is just incorrect. I don't think this topic is impossible to handle. But it is incredibly hard. If you really think you can tackle this topic, you have my support! There rarely is unbiased, or at least completely researched, coverage of this topic online, so having a non-specifically-aligned channel like yours handle it truthfully would be a great boon! But I'm afraid this isn't doing it.
I don't think a 10 minute video can ever come remotely close to covering years of world history in a satisfactory way. Generalizations and oversimplifications are required, and grouping things into trends and strategies that aren't actually real helps a lot in painting a narrative that works fine for a general audience. This is never going to be a quality historical reference, even a textbook would be more reliable (but still garbage). But I really don't see how this is painting Stalin as the ruler of East Germany. Stalin is as much the ruler of East Germany as the President of the US was the ruler of France, West Germany, South Korea, Panama, Honduras, or Colombia. Which is to say, not at all, but you can't deny they're not part of the sphere of influence of their nation.
No kidding the first time I realized it was with the title, the second was him saying that both Roosevelt and Stalin didn’t care for Military build ups like the Nazi’s (because the five year plan didn’t include dragging the Russian army kicking and screaming into the 20th century with the rest of their industry. He said very sarcastically.) look I’ve watched Jack for a few years now and I’ve liked a lot of his videos, but this, his Nero video, and his Louis XVI video are some of the worst takes with history ever hell he used slandering propaganda for his Wilhelm II video after he said that Louis XVI was actually trying to be a good king, but others got in the way. Keep in mind Wilhelm was under obligation of a constitution that state what limits his power had and all final say was the Reichstag’s while Louis XVI was an absolute monarch who had the final say in everything.
Stalin is just as much as a ruler of East Germany as Walter Ulbricht since he has the Red Army in there and used it to crush the 1953 revolts. Think about it, why would the Soviets install Walter Ulbricht - an avowed Stalinist - as leader of East Germany if nothing else but control?
@@soundwavegamer2321Read the 1888 German Constitution again. The Reichstag is to the Kaiser an advisory body and the Kaiser can appoint someone as Chancellor despite the Reichstag saying otherwise. There is a reason why the Bundesprasident of (West) Germany is a powerless figurehead: they don't want a substitute Kaiser ruling Germany again...
Some timeline stuff is a bit muddled here. West Germany was formed on May 23, 1949 which was 11 days after the 11month long Berlin Blockade/Airlift. The US didn't "escalate" by making West Germany. The creation of West Germany was a response to Soviet escalation. A unified, neutral Germany wasn't out of the question until Stalin ordered the blockade. On Korea, the plan was to have international governance until Korea could self-govern. The Soviets accepted the proposal of a division along the 38th parallel for Soviet-US occupation zones. Moscow agreed to the 5 year trusteeship. The Soviets refused to cooperate and hold elections in the north, fearing that the people wouldn't be so fond of communism after a few years of Red Army occupation (considering in jointly occupied countries like Austria Soviet troops committed the majority of all crime, including that of the civilian population, and over 90% of the crimes by occupying soldiers...yeah I wonder why they might be unpopular). Also we need not forget that the DPRK invaded the ROK. The invasion was only successful at first because the US refused to let the ROK be more than a constabulary force, basically a militarized police and border guard service that could deal with insurgency and domestic unrest. As a result it had basically no tanks, aircraft, or artillery of any note. This was done to signal that the US wanted peace and to not provoke the Soviets. The Soviets responded by heavily arming the north, greenlighting the invasion, and providing air support. This feels like you had a desire to "both sides' the issue a bit even though at every step it was Stalin who broke agreements and provoked escalation.
The first shots of the Cold War were the Red Army stopping outside Warsaw, allowing the Nazis to annihilate them. The second act was the disappearing Polish Government in Exile when they went to Moscow. Churchill wanted to attack into Austria through Northern Italy to be more in the Eastern Bloc mix, but they had already agreed upon a line to retreat to. The Democratic governments followed their word. Stalin didn’t.
Video idea! Can you now talk about how people thought it was "the end of history" after the Soviets fell and how they were wrong? Love for you to cover that especially after THIS VIDEO
Ah, the Cold War. My schools never covered it in-depth, because the principal always scheduled pep rallies during history classes. And he scheduled A LOT of pep rallies.
Stalin: I BLOCKED OFF BERLIN! Whatcha gonna do now, hotshot?! Them: Hmmm…ready the planes. Stalin: Y-you can’t do that. I’ll shoot them down under claim of self defense. Them: But if they are only full of food and supplies, that is an act of war…so do you wanna roll those dice? Stalin:… Them:… Stalin:…fuck…outplayed…
The issue is that capitalism needs marked expansion. Also brutally dishones to picture the west as peacefull good guys. Like which side occupied more than half of the world?
The split of Germany and Korea was a big mistake of the west they should have been unified and made neutral buffer states like Austria(instead it only lead to conflicts and attrocities to be commited by both sides and decades of tension and conflics) You can say what you want about soviet policy in eastern europe but it was the west that split germany and Korea going directly against the original plan in Yalta.
I feel like Soviets occupying and refusing to leave East Germany and the Kim regimes successful takeover of North Korea had a lot to do with it. The Soviets repeatedly sent military into the Eastern Bloc to violently remove opposition to Moscow, and if the West left South Korea alone it would have just restarted the civil war
After the Soviet Union turned Eastern Europe into one big communist bloc instead of just returning the governments in exile why would anyone trust them.
@@Rynewulfthe Kim’s only took over because the original leadership was assassinated by American backed former Japanese imperials. And Stalin had asked 4 times for a neutral Germany, he was willingly to leave.
United Nations feels like when you have an awkward Federation in Stellaris where everyone has a radically different government and ideology so you have no unity and never get passed level 1.
The part of East Germany is actually incorrect. Stalin was strongly opposed to the idea of splitting Germany in half. It started off just as a part of the occupation effort of Germany up until the USA declared West Germany independent against the will of, well, everyone concerned. Also to note that Stalin disbanded the Comintern and even wanted to join Nato, but with rising hostilities from the west and being rejected from joining, the Warsaw pact was eventually formed
Wrong Stalin was dead by then, he absolutely wanted Germany split in two and the USSR bidding to join NATO was just a ploy to have an excuse to tighten political control over the eastern bloc.
@@willevensen7130 what are you on about? That Stalin wasn't alive during the forming of the Warsaw pact? Yeah no kidding. The USSR was scared as heck of the idea of a rearmed Germany and wanted to keep the nation neutral. But the west said that "in order for Germany to be reunited they'll have to join the European defence comittee and rearm itself" This didn't fly well with the soviets so negotiations continued until West Germany was declared, joined Nato and started arming itself. This made poland and Czechoslovakia shake in their boots and they worked together to bring about the Warsaw pact.
@@willevensen7130 Stalin offered no fewer than four times to reunite Germany between 1948 and 1953. He wanted to minimize his shared border with NATO as much as possible and leave Germany impotent and without a military. The DDR was viewed by Soviet leadership as being little more than a parasite and a drain on Soviet resources
NATO was formed as a pretty explicit counter to the Soviet Bloc. Though it wasn't explicitly stated in big bold letters, that's pretty much what it was. To allow the Soviets into NATO would completely defeat the entire purpose of the alliance. It'd just be a second layer under the UN, minus China, and with far fewer agencies and a far narrower scope. The Soviets petitioning to join NATO wasn't a serious ask, nor was it taken very seriously.
This video is full of irregularities that slowly indicate that the Soviets are the ones who started the cold war, which is totally wrong. The European part of the Soviet Union was totally destroyed in WW2 with millions of losses, the Soviets desperately wanted peace and stability so they could rebuild the country. On the other hand, the US came out of the great depression thanks to ww2. Even Eisenhower, in his last speech before leaving the office of president, warned against the American military industrial complex. As a one NATO general once wisely said: "NATO serves to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down". I hate communists with all my soul, but in this case, the west is to blame.
Blame it on the Draka 🐉. A nation of slavers and slaves. Founded by former British loyalists who lost North America and settled in a former Dutch colony and turned it into a slavocracy. With some twisting of words and speech about society within and outside of their nation. A modern day Sparta. Located on the south of South Africa.
Lol. FDR as the good guy who’s concerned about democracy. Lol. Don’t read anything whatsoever about him or look at his legacy and you can believe that.
I find it funny that Biden fans like FDR but he was more similar to Trump than Biden. Racist against an Asian country(Japan, China), love for Russian dictator(Stalin, Putin), stacking courts with his people, no respect for term limits. Only similarities FDR shares with Biden are New Deal and not trying to abolish free and fair elections.
I don't think so. The cold war involved two peer powers, and since the Soviet Union collapsed, the US has been the only superpower. I think we're likely to see another one as China becomes more powerful, but we're not there yet.
@@henryfleischer404China has been a superpower for more than a couple years by now and Russia is still one, along with Iran slowly becoming another. They may not be as powerful as the United States, but they sure have the power to destroy many populations of the earth.
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Nah it’s a trash game
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Sorry, no, why does a ‘action packed RPG’ have an autoplay button?
Actually, France almost didn't get the Marshal Plan money... because France wanted to keep its empire. Hell, the current Republic was basically installed via a military coup.
With the 4th Republic falling into pieces, a military coup was the least worst choice out there. At least De Gaulle didn't overstep his powers too much; he is popular enough that he could have turned France into something akin to Francoist Spain or Estado Novo Portugal...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 it would have... if the threat of financial annihilation hadn't steadied de Gaulle's hand.
France is always the wild card of Europe, besides Germany
They even were kicked out from NATO from the 60's until 90's shows how problematic they're
@@SiPakRubah Kicked out? You mean when they willing left?
@@aze94 Oh wait, I forgot the details
Yugoslavia was not part of the Eastern bloc. It was the issue of Greece(and Tito's desire for independence from Moscow and the informbiro) that led to the Tito-Stalin conflict, until Stalin's death Yugoslavia cooperated with the West and was in its own little cold war with Stalin.(I felt the need to say this because the video gives the impression that Yugoslavia was a Soviet satellite)
Yugoslavia and Tito wanted communism in Greece so that Greece and Albania would be controlled by Belgrade, not Moscow.
Yugoslavia was in fact the leader of non-aligned countries of the cold war. I visited Tito's mansion in Croatia (it was turned into a museum) and it was mostly filled with hundreds of photos of Tito and different political leaders from all the continents. He must have been a great diplomat to successfuly create and expand an alliance like that
@@antonikudlicki1100 The "non-aligned" were very irrelevant, most members tried to lobby for one of the two sides in the cold war they supported. It can be compared to the League of Nations, or perhaps even the Commonwealth. The only benefit was propaganda for the governments in their own countries.
And Yugoslavia itself, when Stalin was succeeded by Khrushchev, decided to strengthen economic and political ties with the Soviet Union. (Most of those deals and trades were bad for the companies of both countries, and since the companies were state-owned, it hurt both countries; only a few corrupt people really profited from it). That's why I focused only on Stalin's Soviet Union in my comment.
As for Tito, he was a true pragmatic politician rather than a die-hard communist. As for his reputation in the world, he could thank the effectiveness of the Yugoslav partisans who were the most successful and effective (although not the largest) resistance movement in WW2, and they say he was charismatic as well.
@@antonikudlicki1100you have to be a great diplomat if you can manage to bring a culturally diverse region such as the Balkans together and cooperate with each other for decades without huge problems.
@@lazarpetrovic8340the non aligned movement was mostly just a club where said countries didn't want to take a firm side in either camp, like India not wanting to be part of the western bloc mostly because England was in the club. Many African nations for similar reasons.
The League of Nations failed where the UN didn't specifically BECAUSE the LoN tried to have the power to supercede national sovereignty. As a result...no one really wanted to buy into it in case that power got wielded against them. When the UN said from day 1 "yeah we can't really do anything beyond giving you a harsh recommendation to knock it off", people warmed up to it as an institution.
And it's been utterly and completely useless ever since.
Like how they elect Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan on the UN human rights council.
And that is the reason why the UN seems completely useless.
So you're saying that LoN was a bit overpowered then
Same as the early UN during WW2, but now they aren't
Un is a huge scam. A gigantic waste of taxpayer dollars worldwide
@@SiPakRubah No, the UN was specifically designed such that if any one member of the permenant 5 members of the security council votes against something, the measure falls through. This was by design as a stopgap in the system.
Mt grandfather was a pilot on plane #45 as he told me during the Berlin Airlift! He told me how nerve wracking it was because they could see soviet planes and air defenses pointing at them the whole time
"You can't leave, the doors are locked."
Jack knew exactly how to handle a raid sponsorship. Be funny, don't be overhyped, and say Doom Tower in a silly voice.
There are but a few bastions left, and they will fall over time....alas, how the mighty has fallen.
That gives me vibes of getting a time share presentation
Or just skip through the fuckin ad that shouldn’t be there in the first place. Remember UA-cam 15 years ago
@@KaiHung-wv3ullet him get his bag 😊
actually set through the ad with that funny opening.
"So buried in quote[s] it began to look like razor wire."
Damn this line is genius. I'm stealing.
Stalin: watchya gonna do? Just endlessly fly supplies into the city?
Truman: you know we own Boeing right?
Stalinv fuck! I forgot they own Boeing.
Goering would’ve creamed his pants
The only thing unrealistic is Stalin being genuinely sad the USA 🦅 is burning through its war budget.
when the soviets are asked to build a plane that isnt a mediocre low-altitude fighter
@@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana It doesn't really matter, because USA and it's allies are way richer than USSR.
The USA 🦅 won't have the budget for an invasion if it spends all its money 💰 on stuff like this. @@dieptrieu6564
the first Cold war conflict of goals between the Soviets and the west took a turn for the worse when in 1944 when the Polish Warsaw uprising against the Nazi's was disowned by Stalin and refused help, when Stalin refused to cooperate with the Polish government in exile in London.
Also the genocide an mass killings in Katina Poland.
Warsaw uprising was staged without Soviet help on purpose, I'm not gonna say it wasn't the first bout of tension, but the polish leadership did it to their own people on the ground
@@Trump2024asw I never heard that was brought by allied commanders during ww2??
It was a little more complicated, Stalin hated the prewar polish government which was a right wing anti communist dictatorship. That said the Soviets did drop supplies for the polish in the city (though the Germans captured most of these) and tried to take the city but their logistics were stretched too thin. They weren’t able to cross the Vistula since the Nazis were too well dug in and as already mentioned the Soviet units that were present weren’t capable of further offensive action.
@@nestormakhno9266 as far as I know, those "Attempts" at aiding the Warsaw uprising was put on for show to the western allies and not allocated enough resources to be a real attempt
I think I’m a little younger than Jack, cause growing up we did manage to get to the Cold War but I was always left asking “so why does everybody always seem so concerned about Serbia”
Probably depends on both when one took History class, and the course curricular.
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Despite all the bravado, sabre-rattling, and loudspeakers, this is how both sides sounded for nearly 50 years.
When I clicked the time stamp, an ad started playing beginning with a cannon blast. I think that was the opposite of what you were going for
Churchill constantly planning an invasion of the USSR didn't help with Stalins paranoia. Stalin distrusted the west because he feared they would attempt an attack, and well, he wasn't totally wrong, at least with Winston.
Ah yes, the good 'ol classic "i have different kind of peace than yours so let's start a war". Happens very often in history.
Its worth noting the US wasnt just the most industrialised country on earth whos industry had gone unmolested during the war, they also had drained the coffers of a lot of its future allies during the cash and carry portion of involvement.
The marshall plan went beyond just giving it back but had they not dumped big ol piles of capital back into European economies they would likely have been very dysfunctional from having no cash/gold reserves AND being bombed to rubble. It was equal parts a bribe to stay in the US sphere of influence as it was training wheels for their economies.
The reasoning being that if their economies were failing and uncertainty ruled the communists would have much more support than if economies were booming and people felt like their lives were getting better.
Also who would buy all the American stuff with what money?
Interesting economics - Europe buys supplies - gets the supplies - but then "wants their money back"
@@sgabigEurope bankcrupted itself during the war. They needed money to keep buying more stuff from the US so the US gave them a metric f u c k ton of money and then proceeded to sell them everything they needed.
Okay, but i would TOTALLY watch a UN security council themed cop show
Churchill never trusted Stalin or stopped seeing Russia as Britain's Great Game opponent.
Churchill was a warmongerer himself and got voted out of office for that
The Soviet murdering the Polish officers in Kapteyn Forest and Stalin joking about it afterward kind of made Churchill realize he was in bed with a monster.
@@mjbull5156 No, Britain and the Soviet Union never trusted each other.
@@mjbull5156 the same Churchill that was buddy buddy with mussilini
As a 70s kid, it seemed our history teachers would say, "And then we dropped the bomb on Japan! Have a great summer...!"
And then Osama Bin Laden had 2 planes crash into the World Trade Center. Have a great summer!!
Picked up a university level "World History" textbook from the 70s at an antique store.
The only time it talks about the world is the part where Europe conquers it. Otherwise it's hyper-capitalistic hyper-western-centric and bananas devoid of context. It feels like a self-affirming story book for imperialists rather than a piece of academia, and its a *university textbook.*
Just thought you'd appreciate that info. The super smart grownups when you were growing up were basically teaching a curriculum of "white people with money did everything good for everyone forever, isn't that neat?" Your 70s education really adds to this context for me.
4:50 Stalin actually did keep his part of the deal, and betrayed communists in Greece, Italy, France..
That's why Tito got kicked out of the Comintern, he wouldn't accept this
"During the war, people were hopefull the rest of the century would be nothing but roses"
I mean,they nearly got it right.
It just took half a century longer then they though.
Aka 1-2 generations.
Which is about the normal amount of time for a society to fully adapt to a new situation.
Uh, were you asleep in February 2022?
The "peace" at the end of the Cold War was just a momentary blip before a return to chaos. Cold wars and their ensuing conflicts on the periphery seem to be an inevitability in a world with nukes.
Bruh you’re tripping.
@@VioIetShift even including ukrain, afghanistan, israel and the pandemic, we still live in a wat more peacfull age then back then.
And it IS compairable to a good age to live in.
Yet I doubt it would of gone any other way.
Yeah it's not like everyone hated everyone for like fourty years beforehand. Not like most of the world funded the white army and the USSR funded communist rebels across the world after the 1920's.
Yeah, especially given how the these ideologies greatly oppose each other
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Yes, although both sides thought the other was going to naturally fall to their side over time anyway, so it could have been nothing but a waiting game.
There is a chance it might've worked if none of the then current heads of government were in charge. All 3 were the direct catalysts to the war, even happening when their respective countries went full proxy conflicts to avoid direct nuclear Armageddon
@@MilkMan7300 Not necessarily. The US voted for the Khmer Rouge and Khmer Rouge dominated force to stay in the UN representation for Cambodia UN seat until 1993. The Khmer Rouge which have human rights violations list that would make Hitler atrocities look "humane". We see this time and times again is that the Cold war is not ideology based but simply two emerging world super power vying for power. Both "democratic" and "peaceful" nations that support or backed dictators, extremism and violent groups. Sometimes even against their "morale code", the moderate and liberal US would turn a blind eye to or even promote religious extremists inside the Mujahideen as long as it is directed toward the Soviet or even dictatorships that was sponsored and backed by the US. The Soviet didn't do much better either but they have been talked to death since they lost the cold war.
Why are you showing Roosevelt on the thumbnail? He didn't see the Cold War. He didn't even live enough to see the fall of Berlin
He's wondering what spawned it, likely around FDR
Not who was there when it "officially" started
The Berlin airlift was amazing. British rationing actually played a huge part in it, along with sheer US air muscle, and experience gained through the airlifts to China during the war.
I think at its peak, a C-47 was landing every 30 seconds or something.
I feel like the thumbnail should have Truman instead of FDR
Yea, FDR didn't even survive WW2
Yeah if anything if FDR actually lived out his third term we probably wouldn't of had a cold war. Truman had a very itchy trigger finger towards the Soviets while FDR was very pragmatic and was willing to be cooperative with them.
Doesn't matter how cooperative FDR was when Stalin was so uncooperative. Eventually this would have happened either way.
@@samdherring id disagree. A half a year would have changed a lot. Hell Stalin and FDR even had secret agreements that were definitely not followed thru under Truman.
@@samdherring Stalin was very cooperative with FDR
Important note, Yugoslavia was socialist and was actually kicked out of the soviet block because of their differences with Stalin's SSSR, their wish for greece to join them was because historically the southern slavs, especially Serbs, have been close to Greeks for centuries and wanted to try and merge with them.
0:38 I love that he’s playing in the mood. I love that song soooo much. Swing is a magical genre
4:10 Feels like you're missing someone buddy
Not really. France wasn't a part of the initial plan for the security council, mostly because the country was in ruins and ruled by a provisional government. On top of that the americans really didn't like them, Roosevelt hated De Gaulle. One of the main reasons they were added is that the british didn't want to be the only western european member on the council. That way they wouldn't be expected to play the "world police" in the region by themselves and wouldn't have to be too involved in continental Europe.
@@MrPrometheeother than the Soviets knew France's rebellious behavior, they allowed it too
No alliance that includes the British will ever stand for justice. Unless there's no one else in that alliance, then it's the British Empire and it stands for money.
USSR wasn't against mitarism and expansionism. They annexed the baltic countries, started a war agains finland and jointly invaded poland with germany.
Oh let me guess "We fought the wrong enemy"? Because if USSR hadn't done all that, Germany would have a much bigger upper hand in the war and millions of slavs would be slaughtered and/or enslaved according to Generalplan Ost. Is this what you'd prefer to happen?
And the allies had the two biggest colonial empires in history of mankind.
Only USA were against expansionism because they had already achieved the perfect borders
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Yeah.... how do i explain this bud
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America
@@throwfascistsintopits3062 I said they were against expansionism not that they didn’t intervene in foreign countries
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Yet they still actively expanded throughout their history, same manifest destiny. Not always by borders, but economically and politically. That's what capitalism and imperialism are.
The editing style is refreshing
Don’t get me wrong, I love these videos but I’d love some Life and Times too!
Life and times of Molotov! Especially when Harry Truman screaming at him basically helped kick start all the tension after the war.
With easter coming up maybe a video on the life and times of times of some Irish republicans. Or maybe even just figures important to Irish history like Brian Boru.
1:09 this is the most chaotic intro ever
Great retelling! And as sokmeone born at the very end of it who knows who won it was still good to hear the whole thing as a whole thing and not bits and peices.
"You can't leave the doors are locked" on the Raid Shadow Legends ad feels like a cry for help with a year of hindsight.
That game was 100% marketing but I'm glad you got the bread when you could. You deserve it.
The American basiclly also used “”””democracy”””” to get non-European countries to be capitalist as well.
My great-grandfather was the second person from his Romanian village to become a member of the Romanian Communist Party. He didn't do it because he believed in communism. In fact, during the war, he was a member of Ion Antonescu's guard regiment, the Romanian pro-Axis dictator. He entered in the party because that way he could more easily trade țuică (a Romanian kind of schnapps) for things stolen by the Soviet soldiers that were occupying the village. While he was doing his smuggling, Stalin forced King Michael to appoint an associate of Romania's communists as PM and then the communists started slowly to take over. And my grand-great father was taken by the wave might I say.
At the elections of 1947 he was spying the voting booths from his village through some holes that were in the room's ceiling. Whenever someone cast a vote for an opposition party he gave a signal, then someone in the voting center put some white chalk powder on the voter's back and outside, the unfortunate marked voter was to take a beating from some policemen.
0:40 you should do a video on franco sometime!
Mackinder's doctrine and true liberalism doctrine. Big industrialized countries can't compete with USA, USA can't allow to exist competitors or equal powers, hegemony is hegemony. Marshall's plan only existed to compete with the USSR, at the begining they wanted Morgenthau's plan for Europe, wich would condemn Germany to be a rural country.
Hi! Jack I don't know if you're going to see this but I think you will be really interesting if you consider talking about
Simo Häyhä (the white death)
He was Finnish sniper in the winter war of 1939
Just an idea to throw out there in the future. :>
All right have an amazing day :-)
I remember learning about the start of the Cold War and the Berlin Airlift in secondary school. It's a very interesting topic and often gets overlooked
Putting "In the Mood" at the beginning messed with me, it's my ringtone and I kept thinking I was getting a phone call lol
"and to America's credit it wasn't a bunch of coups it was money."
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From the perspective of an Eastern European USSR started to install their friendly regimes starting 1944, as soon they deposed the leadership of the country that they "freed" on their way to Berlin. I can tell about the example of Romania, where initially the communists, a really fringe party, was forced on the Romanian elites to accept on their nationwide government after the Antonescu regime ended. And then, with each successive government (each if them lasting for month), by march 1945 the communists already had the government.
One year and a half later, the king was deposed and România become a socialist Republic.
Did you know that ho chi Minh was armed and trained by the u.s. during the japanese occupation of vietnam??!
Ho was influenced a lot by the US until it turned its back on him during his fight for Vietnamese independence.
Just like Al-Qaeda during the Soviet occupation of Afganistan, that surelly backfired
Oh man I about lost it when Churchill did the hand to the eyes thing😂😂😂
Arguably, the Cold War started during the Russian Civil War, when multiple countries invaded Russia to support the Whites against the Reds. Or when the USA dropped the bombs on Japan. Stalin's negotiatiors had worked out a Japanese surrender well before then, but the USA wanted to take credit and send a message to the USSR and rest of the world.
The Cold War: Brought to you by the Military Industrial Complexes.
I'm sorry, I know this is a difficult topic to research, considering most of the material available is from, or based on material from the Cold War, and I deeply understand the struggle of trying to unravel what is propaganda and what is actual history from the era,
but this isn't really adding to anyone's knowledge. Hel, making Stalin out to be the ruler of East Germany for example, and I don't mean any offense by this, is just incorrect.
I don't think this topic is impossible to handle. But it is incredibly hard. If you really think you can tackle this topic, you have my support! There rarely is unbiased, or at least completely researched, coverage of this topic online, so having a non-specifically-aligned channel like yours handle it truthfully would be a great boon!
But I'm afraid this isn't doing it.
condesending
I don't think a 10 minute video can ever come remotely close to covering years of world history in a satisfactory way. Generalizations and oversimplifications are required, and grouping things into trends and strategies that aren't actually real helps a lot in painting a narrative that works fine for a general audience.
This is never going to be a quality historical reference, even a textbook would be more reliable (but still garbage). But I really don't see how this is painting Stalin as the ruler of East Germany.
Stalin is as much the ruler of East Germany as the President of the US was the ruler of France, West Germany, South Korea, Panama, Honduras, or Colombia. Which is to say, not at all, but you can't deny they're not part of the sphere of influence of their nation.
No kidding the first time I realized it was with the title, the second was him saying that both Roosevelt and Stalin didn’t care for Military build ups like the Nazi’s (because the five year plan didn’t include dragging the Russian army kicking and screaming into the 20th century with the rest of their industry. He said very sarcastically.) look I’ve watched Jack for a few years now and I’ve liked a lot of his videos, but this, his Nero video, and his Louis XVI video are some of the worst takes with history ever hell he used slandering propaganda for his Wilhelm II video after he said that Louis XVI was actually trying to be a good king, but others got in the way. Keep in mind Wilhelm was under obligation of a constitution that state what limits his power had and all final say was the Reichstag’s while Louis XVI was an absolute monarch who had the final say in everything.
Stalin is just as much as a ruler of East Germany as Walter Ulbricht since he has the Red Army in there and used it to crush the 1953 revolts. Think about it, why would the Soviets install Walter Ulbricht - an avowed Stalinist - as leader of East Germany if nothing else but control?
@@soundwavegamer2321Read the 1888 German Constitution again. The Reichstag is to the Kaiser an advisory body and the Kaiser can appoint someone as Chancellor despite the Reichstag saying otherwise. There is a reason why the Bundesprasident of (West) Germany is a powerless figurehead: they don't want a substitute Kaiser ruling Germany again...
My guy, the gulags were a thing WAY before the end of WW2. Peace was never an option.
you think your country is so virtous that you would go to war over that? pull your head out.
Great video
My grandpa needed to shot a fridge during the cold war😢
Heartbreaking 💔😞
Some timeline stuff is a bit muddled here. West Germany was formed on May 23, 1949 which was 11 days after the 11month long Berlin Blockade/Airlift. The US didn't "escalate" by making West Germany. The creation of West Germany was a response to Soviet escalation. A unified, neutral Germany wasn't out of the question until Stalin ordered the blockade.
On Korea, the plan was to have international governance until Korea could self-govern. The Soviets accepted the proposal of a division along the 38th parallel for Soviet-US occupation zones. Moscow agreed to the 5 year trusteeship. The Soviets refused to cooperate and hold elections in the north, fearing that the people wouldn't be so fond of communism after a few years of Red Army occupation (considering in jointly occupied countries like Austria Soviet troops committed the majority of all crime, including that of the civilian population, and over 90% of the crimes by occupying soldiers...yeah I wonder why they might be unpopular). Also we need not forget that the DPRK invaded the ROK. The invasion was only successful at first because the US refused to let the ROK be more than a constabulary force, basically a militarized police and border guard service that could deal with insurgency and domestic unrest. As a result it had basically no tanks, aircraft, or artillery of any note. This was done to signal that the US wanted peace and to not provoke the Soviets. The Soviets responded by heavily arming the north, greenlighting the invasion, and providing air support.
This feels like you had a desire to "both sides' the issue a bit even though at every step it was Stalin who broke agreements and provoked escalation.
The first shots of the Cold War were the Red Army stopping outside Warsaw, allowing the Nazis to annihilate them. The second act was the disappearing Polish Government in Exile when they went to Moscow. Churchill wanted to attack into Austria through Northern Italy to be more in the Eastern Bloc mix, but they had already agreed upon a line to retreat to. The Democratic governments followed their word. Stalin didn’t.
Video idea! Can you now talk about how people thought it was "the end of history" after the Soviets fell and how they were wrong? Love for you to cover that especially after THIS VIDEO
“Who shoots first and asks questions later” 😭😭😭
Thanks for not making this 30 minutes long
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God bless you.
Ah, the Cold War. My schools never covered it in-depth, because the principal always scheduled pep rallies during history classes. And he scheduled A LOT of pep rallies.
Love the ending paragraph
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4:51 Are you a voice actor for SAO: Abridged ?
the voice sounds so similar its uncanny
props for the accurate UA-cam sponsor
Such optimistic beginnings!
"After the end of World War II, the world was split into two - East and West. This marked the beginning of the era called the Cold War."
Great video bud! 😊
Also one thing to high light. It wasn't cold for all the people that burned with Napalm
damn...
Good stuff hope this is a long series haha
Stalin: I BLOCKED OFF BERLIN! Whatcha gonna do now, hotshot?!
Them: Hmmm…ready the planes.
Stalin: Y-you can’t do that. I’ll shoot them down under claim of self defense.
Them: But if they are only full of food and supplies, that is an act of war…so do you wanna roll those dice?
Stalin:…
Them:…
Stalin:…fuck…outplayed…
Glenn Miller's In The Mood you might say really set the mood for this video
If its difficult to say who started the first one at least we easily can say that US started the 2nd cold war
Oh this is gonna be a good one🗿
Lmao congrats on your sponsor and great video
The issue is that capitalism needs marked expansion. Also brutally dishones to picture the west as peacefull good guys. Like which side occupied more than half of the world?
The art in this episode had me rolling!
I love history and holy shit was this informative entertaining and comprehensive rather it just shoved down your throst like a smoothie
The Stalin bean had me dying.
awesome video! i love it
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Haha, what you said at the beginning, we had that too, but with 90s to 2010s history
The split of Germany and Korea was a big mistake of the west they should have been unified and made neutral buffer states like Austria(instead it only lead to conflicts and attrocities to be commited by both sides and decades of tension and conflics)
You can say what you want about soviet policy in eastern europe but it was the west that split germany and Korea going directly against the original plan in Yalta.
The idea the world could have been friends with the Soviets was, and always will be, nonsense.
I feel like Soviets occupying and refusing to leave East Germany and the Kim regimes successful takeover of North Korea had a lot to do with it. The Soviets repeatedly sent military into the Eastern Bloc to violently remove opposition to Moscow, and if the West left South Korea alone it would have just restarted the civil war
@@Rynewulf It was the west that diverted from the plan not the soviets.
After the Soviet Union turned Eastern Europe into one big communist bloc instead of just returning the governments in exile why would anyone trust them.
@@Rynewulfthe Kim’s only took over because the original leadership was assassinated by American backed former Japanese imperials. And Stalin had asked 4 times for a neutral Germany, he was willingly to leave.
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United Nations feels like when you have an awkward Federation in Stellaris where everyone has a radically different government and ideology so you have no unity and never get passed level 1.
I love how no one understands that Canada got involved in the beginning of the cold war by having the RCMP capture a soviet man in Canada.
The part of East Germany is actually incorrect. Stalin was strongly opposed to the idea of splitting Germany in half. It started off just as a part of the occupation effort of Germany up until the USA declared West Germany independent against the will of, well, everyone concerned. Also to note that Stalin disbanded the Comintern and even wanted to join Nato, but with rising hostilities from the west and being rejected from joining, the Warsaw pact was eventually formed
Wrong Stalin was dead by then, he absolutely wanted Germany split in two and the USSR bidding to join NATO was just a ploy to have an excuse to tighten political control over the eastern bloc.
@@willevensen7130 what are you on about? That Stalin wasn't alive during the forming of the Warsaw pact? Yeah no kidding. The USSR was scared as heck of the idea of a rearmed Germany and wanted to keep the nation neutral. But the west said that "in order for Germany to be reunited they'll have to join the European defence comittee and rearm itself"
This didn't fly well with the soviets so negotiations continued until West Germany was declared, joined Nato and started arming itself. This made poland and Czechoslovakia shake in their boots and they worked together to bring about the Warsaw pact.
@@willevensen7130 Stalin offered no fewer than four times to reunite Germany between 1948 and 1953. He wanted to minimize his shared border with NATO as much as possible and leave Germany impotent and without a military. The DDR was viewed by Soviet leadership as being little more than a parasite and a drain on Soviet resources
NATO was formed as a pretty explicit counter to the Soviet Bloc. Though it wasn't explicitly stated in big bold letters, that's pretty much what it was. To allow the Soviets into NATO would completely defeat the entire purpose of the alliance. It'd just be a second layer under the UN, minus China, and with far fewer agencies and a far narrower scope. The Soviets petitioning to join NATO wasn't a serious ask, nor was it taken very seriously.
This video is full of irregularities that slowly indicate that the Soviets are the ones who started the cold war, which is totally wrong. The European part of the Soviet Union was totally destroyed in WW2 with millions of losses, the Soviets desperately wanted peace and stability so they could rebuild the country.
On the other hand, the US came out of the great depression thanks to ww2. Even Eisenhower, in his last speech before leaving the office of president, warned against the American military industrial complex. As a one NATO general once wisely said: "NATO serves to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down".
I hate communists with all my soul, but in this case, the west is to blame.
Blame it on the Draka 🐉. A nation of slavers and slaves. Founded by former British loyalists who lost North America and settled in a former Dutch colony and turned it into a slavocracy. With some twisting of words and speech about society within and outside of their nation. A modern day Sparta. Located on the south of South Africa.
Wait I'm pretty sure that China was added to the Council to be a soviet ally. That France was the wild card
00:1 in the mood isn't cold war this song is from 1939 in it's swing form.
Lol. FDR as the good guy who’s concerned about democracy. Lol. Don’t read anything whatsoever about him or look at his legacy and you can believe that.
I find it funny that Biden fans like FDR but he was more similar to Trump than Biden. Racist against an Asian country(Japan, China), love for Russian dictator(Stalin, Putin), stacking courts with his people, no respect for term limits. Only similarities FDR shares with Biden are New Deal and not trying to abolish free and fair elections.
i see what you did there lmao , the highway exit its to the left instead of the right when talking about the USSR, noice
I’m just surprised RAID survived this long.
Am l the only one who saw the illumenauty sight in 1:03
No
Nice vid!!!!!!!
Would love to see more Cold War content
I loved every part of this video, oh and there was also some kind of sponsor at one point.. but otherwise I loved every part of the video
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You could argue that right now we are in the Second Cold War after 9/11, or alternatively, that it never ended in the first place
I don't think so. The cold war involved two peer powers, and since the Soviet Union collapsed, the US has been the only superpower. I think we're likely to see another one as China becomes more powerful, but we're not there yet.
@@henryfleischer404China has been a superpower for more than a couple years by now and Russia is still one, along with Iran slowly becoming another. They may not be as powerful as the United States, but they sure have the power to destroy many populations of the earth.
Being Rhode Island born, I see no problem with this.
"It wasnt a bunch of coupes" Italy right now😢
YUP!!! My generation got to WWII, and we learned the rest from Forrest Gump
No one is safe from death
no one is safe from taxes
no one is safe from raid shadow legends
I enjoy your humour full look at history. Keep it up.
Jolly good show!