There Was No 'Cold' War

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[Welkon]

I think having a anti-nuke guy as the head of the nuke everyone command was the best possible outcome

[leflavius_nl]

It was hot, but the mentality of "My city isn't being blown up, so there's no hot war" reigned supreme.

[Eduardo_Ventura]

"Cold war" between the USA and URSS. I'm a Brazilian and even my country with it's pacific background was very involved and changed by this events. The therm "cold war" is ONLY used between the two main powers. Never intended to say it was peaceful.

[snipertraderGBS]

Basically the only places where the Cold War was actually "cold" was in the two competing superpowers (USSR & US) and in Europe (mostly, at least). On the contrary, most of the rest of the world witnessed a relatively "hot" war, where the situation often turned very cruel and violent, great examples of this would be the Middle East, Korea, former Indochina and tons of other places.

[isaacalonsohndz]

Me being salvadorian, I thank you deeply for covering the multiples masacres that have been done over half a century. This is so poorly covered by our history books, that... at this point... everyone appears to just... forgot it happend. I wish you the best. I look forward to aid you in this project of a channel.

(Edit: Misspelling of "book")

[Sparrow.]

I love how the ego of US was so high that when French made an very very important report on how TO NOT MAKE SAME MISTAKE for the conflict (and more).
They just did not use it (probably didn't read)...and made the same mistake and cost the life of many soldiers.

[Rita-bfxe]

THANK YOU for mentioned the occupation and genocide in East Timor by Indonesia. Kissinger himself gave Suharto the green light after their independence, all because their new government was on the socialist side.

I hope they make it a national holiday in East Timor and all these other countries when Kissinger dies.

[ahmedsn]

Reminder that Kessinger was awarded the nobel peace prize! ☮️

[seanzibonanzi]

Crazy factoid about the Tsar bomba test. The nuke's possible yield was reduced by half just to give the pilot a better than 50% chance at escaping the blast. So the largest nuke ever could've been twice as large, think about that.

[metsisles]

This is a great video, and as a history major at college, my classes have talked exactly about this. How the cold war was a hot war that was fought in the third-world, and that it was really a war on the world's poor.

[CaptHiltz]

Nuclear weapons may have kept the major powers out of a ground war but it sure as hell didn't deter warfare in general. I remember hearing years ago that it's possible that more people died from war during the "Cold War" than died during WWII. I don't doubt that.

[ryancooper]

Appreciate your work on these videos, the facts you present and the clear way you present them are far above most YouTube essayists.

[npg]

Not to mention the genocide in East Pakistan (1971) which was also supported and funded by the Americans.

[BrettonFerguson]

US pilots fought Russian pilots over Korea and likely Vietnam. The US and USSR also fought dozens of proxy wars in Africa, Central America, and Afghanistan. The "Cold War" is just a term used to mean WWIII didn't happen. Anyone who thinks fighting did not occur is ill informed.

[shmeckle]

“Wizards of Armageddon” and “To Win A Nuclear War: The Pentagons Secret War Plans” are some of the best books on the topic of US nuclear war policy during the Cold War. Really eye opening into the milieu of the time through those decades.

[BlueCollar]

Until today in my country Indonesia, the massacre they did to the people suspected as communist still seen as a great achievement that need to be celebrated each year.

Also the invasion of east timor somehow justified by the reason that the country is poorer today than when they are colonized by us.

[elchucabagra]

Runners up:
-US complicity in the Bangladesh genocide
-Explicit and covert support for apartheid South Africa
-Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War

[munsunsnight]

This is great work, thank you. Cheers from Guatemala!!!

[loltwest]

I suppose whether or not it was a “Cold War” is gonna depend on who you ask.

I, for one, choose to describe it as a series of proxy wars between the USA and the USSR, one where they never directly engaged each other…at least not openly.

[MrTooEarnestOnline]

I have always said this. I split the Cold War into two section. You have the “Cold War” spanning across Europe, the US, and the USSR. And then you have the “post-colonial” wars which were much more violent and evil. Western powers don’t talk about those casualties because of pure racism. Another great vid!!!