How Nixon Would Deal With Russia (1980)

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Комментарии • 171

  • @scottgauley7722
    @scottgauley7722 3 месяца назад +120

    Nixon's profound understanding of foreign affairs is simply masterful. He's well spoken, articulate, lays out his plans thoughtfully. Nixon knew how to play chess on the world stage, and he does not get enough credit for this!

    • @serhiikyrychenko9757
      @serhiikyrychenko9757 2 месяца назад +1

      It's a pity we don't have such politicians as Nixon today

    • @jameswatt8001
      @jameswatt8001 2 месяца назад

      LOL! How long have you been a Nixon foundation employee?

    • @arturbello4213
      @arturbello4213 22 дня назад

      He was a great lawyer.

    • @Likeaworm
      @Likeaworm 2 дня назад

      The same exact strategy could be used to bring the Chinese to their senses in the South China Sea and stop their aggression towards their neighbors.

  • @zenwarfare70
    @zenwarfare70 2 месяца назад +7

    He speaks like a grown up !
    I like that a lot !

  • @airplanes42
    @airplanes42 3 месяца назад +107

    They destroyed this man because they hated him. And he was brilliant.

    • @Snob888
      @Snob888 3 месяца назад

      Who is they? It can only be the same They, the plutocratic Western ruling class who is attempting to destroy Trump this is very moment

    • @vincentmartinez8241
      @vincentmartinez8241 3 месяца назад +11

      His foreign diplomacy efforts and understanding of World Affairs were unmatched

    • @Leto2ndAtreides
      @Leto2ndAtreides 3 месяца назад

      Didn't necessarily hate him. He was popular enough.
      But there was a mess up. He didn't manage to contain the Watergate scandal... Because containing it ran into the problem that US public servants found it against their conscience to suppress the investigation.
      And then the Nixon tapes revealed too many of his private conversations where he wasn't maintaining his Presidential baring.
      It was unfortunate... "Better a wise enemy than foolish friends" as it were.

    • @Rickets1911
      @Rickets1911 3 месяца назад

      He destroyed himself; protecting CIA activities on American soil

    • @Page-Hendryx
      @Page-Hendryx 3 месяца назад +7

      Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

  • @72seeker72
    @72seeker72 3 месяца назад +26

    Love him or hate him, and this has been said a lot in these comments, Nixon was one smart dude.

  • @bradpeterson9325
    @bradpeterson9325 3 месяца назад +24

    A national treasure.

  • @robertpolityka8464
    @robertpolityka8464 3 месяца назад +28

    Excellent job Mr. PRESIDENT

  • @Steve197201
    @Steve197201 3 месяца назад +44

    I would pay money to see this man debate either Trump or Biden. He'd mop the floor with both of them.

    • @fmayer1507
      @fmayer1507 3 месяца назад +4

      With AI, that may be possible. Develop a Nixon AI robot that is programmed based on Nixon's approach and feeds all the world's current geopolitical facts and details along with all historical lessons learned. It would be fantastic to watch.

    • @fmayer1507
      @fmayer1507 3 месяца назад +1

      With AI, that may be possible. Develop a Nixon AI robot that is programmed based on Nixon's approach and feeds all the world's current geopolitical facts and details along with all historical lessons learned. It would be fantastic to watch.

    • @ChristophTungersleben
      @ChristophTungersleben 3 месяца назад

      prefer bidon's "anyway" opposite nixon's dogmatic. AI Bidon win.

    • @manuwilson4695
      @manuwilson4695 3 месяца назад +1

      ABSOLUTELY!!!

    • @donlightfoot9608
      @donlightfoot9608 2 месяца назад +1

      @@fmayer1507 Except the programmers would use Nixon's words to project some backward, globalist worldview he would've found ridiculous, asinine, and anti-American.

  • @vincentmartinez8241
    @vincentmartinez8241 3 месяца назад +65

    Richard Nixon was too distinguished and too eloquent for today's politicians to even emulate.

    • @scottlaux6934
      @scottlaux6934 3 месяца назад +6

      It's depressing how superficial and unserious our politicians are today.

    • @amazin7006
      @amazin7006 3 месяца назад +2

      Obama was equally eloquent, although unlike Nixon he was more concerned with domestic policy particularly around healthcare and the economy

    • @vincentmartinez8241
      @vincentmartinez8241 3 месяца назад

      ​@@amazin7006 Yeah that seem to be his platform

    • @InqvisitorMagnvs
      @InqvisitorMagnvs 2 месяца назад +2

      @@amazin7006Obama was “eloquent” in his words while saying nothing of substance. He was not a deep thinker.

    • @amazin7006
      @amazin7006 2 месяца назад

      @@InqvisitorMagnvs I disagree. He has plenty of substantive speeches and lectures on RUclips the one he gave to young voters about political cynicism is still salient today

  • @robertortiz-wilson1588
    @robertortiz-wilson1588 3 месяца назад +16

    Just absolutely brilliant.

    • @Rickets1911
      @Rickets1911 3 месяца назад

      I think you’re swayed too much, by his demeanor

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 3 месяца назад +1

      @@Rickets1911 I am absolutely not. I know about the historical situations he’s discussing. His demeanor is the cherry on top.

    • @Rickets1911
      @Rickets1911 3 месяца назад

      @@robertortiz-wilson1588 he didn’t do us any favors by “withdrawing from Vietnam with honor “ , and then keeping us in for two more years ..
      However, I do admit that he hit a home run by ‘opening China’ to trade with the west.
      He was most definitely, the CIA’s boy. . not that there’s anything much wrong with that.. but that batch of characters has been known to rely on deception.. hence Watergate,, etc

  • @xanfortunato
    @xanfortunato 3 месяца назад +17

    While far more professional than our current trash filth media, it is pretty clear that she isn’t giving him a lot of ground when he gives a substantive answer. He then just goes on the give a more thorough answer. Brilliant, cordial, and better than her.

  • @pinghsu4607
    @pinghsu4607 2 месяца назад +3

    What a brilliant President Nixon is !!

  • @wyattmccain5697
    @wyattmccain5697 3 месяца назад +6

    Geopolitical Genius 🇺🇸

  • @thefullmoongamer
    @thefullmoongamer Месяц назад +2

    Today he is a saint compared to current leadership.

  • @SandyJohnson-ur6xi
    @SandyJohnson-ur6xi 3 месяца назад +21

    She’s a mess and he’s intelligent…….its a snapshot of current problems

    • @camwinston5248
      @camwinston5248 2 месяца назад

      She's who created and started the View...I'd figure she didn't intend for it to become what it became..but she started it.

  • @henrycabotlodge1259
    @henrycabotlodge1259 3 месяца назад +75

    Barbara Walters was so god damn obnoxious

    • @robz7789
      @robz7789 3 месяца назад +2

      May she rest in peace

    • @thomaspick4123
      @thomaspick4123 3 месяца назад

      With her tube of lubricant.

    • @lordofbathurst
      @lordofbathurst 3 месяца назад +5

      You mean Barbara Walters? "the reporter" lmfao

    • @mistersamdi
      @mistersamdi 3 месяца назад +6

      Gilda Radner did her justice 🤣

    • @mtnstrand2819
      @mtnstrand2819 3 месяца назад

      She's the most annoying voice I've ever heard!!!

  • @dougk2932
    @dougk2932 2 месяца назад +2

    Most misunderstood and underrated US President.

  • @kjlaw0731
    @kjlaw0731 2 месяца назад +1

    Well, how do we need this man now!!

  • @HELLH0WND
    @HELLH0WND 3 месяца назад +3

    Barbara Walters reminded me of Derek Zoolander when he said "but why male models?" after David Duchovny spent 5 minutes explaining "why male models".

    • @cifey
      @cifey 2 месяца назад

      Sometimes it's necessary to repeat things for clarity. I don't recall why it had to be male models, and I also didn't know what Russia was doing in Ethiopia.

  • @deller5924
    @deller5924 3 месяца назад +15

    The more I watch him, the more I like him.
    I think he was set up back when he was the president.

  • @badmonkey2468
    @badmonkey2468 3 месяца назад +5

    imagine Biden answering such questions

    • @Shane-gc2eg
      @Shane-gc2eg 3 месяца назад +1

      or trump they are both bad choices sadly.

    • @badmonkey2468
      @badmonkey2468 3 месяца назад +4

      @@Shane-gc2eg while I do think the american binary system is weird I do think Trump could actually answer questions compared to Biden

    • @user-tm6qh6mh3g
      @user-tm6qh6mh3g 2 месяца назад +1

      @@badmonkey2468You clearly don’t pay attention then lol. Trump is a total idiot who knows nothing about politics. If you recall, Trump couldn’t even handle Biden in their debate lmao

  • @johnnotrealname8168
    @johnnotrealname8168 3 месяца назад +6

    First and only 15 minutes late, what surprises me is how highly he thought of Russians despite the communism they were under. Chinese too of course which he is definitely correct about but in particular the Russians and his rather benevolent views of them. It is a magnanimity that I find difficult to emulate despite how necessary it was, still is. Edit: Wait Wait Wait, détente with containment? Okay, that is more believable. I was wondering why America was sitting idle when so many countries were falling to communism and I am glad some voices were haranguing the government. I need someone to explain this détente thing now.

    • @scottlaux6934
      @scottlaux6934 3 месяца назад +8

      I am 64, remember Nixon well. That is how our leaders spoke back them. They were cultured people for the most part - no name calling or personal attacks. It was a serious eloquent time.

    • @WingkKong
      @WingkKong 3 месяца назад +1

      America cannot Stop the earth spinning
      Just like it cannot Stop the North Vietnam United Vietnam

    • @johnnotrealname8168
      @johnnotrealname8168 3 месяца назад

      @@WingkKong It maybe would not stop it forever but as North-Korea shows, it could prevent a takeover.

    • @WingkKong
      @WingkKong 3 месяца назад +1

      @@johnnotrealname8168 Why the America left South Vietnam
      They should stay in South Vietnam

    • @johnnotrealname8168
      @johnnotrealname8168 3 месяца назад +1

      @@WingkKong I agree.

  • @tubularbill
    @tubularbill Месяц назад

    I truly believe Nixon and then Reagan saved us from nuclear war. Both were masterful at world chess.

  • @user-bg2it5kf9q
    @user-bg2it5kf9q 2 месяца назад

    Where has Sai gone? (Saigon)

  • @terryhollands2794
    @terryhollands2794 3 месяца назад +1

    Compare Nixon to Biden and Trump. Nixon had a working adult brain producing intelligent responses to questions. Trump and Biden talk like they are still in high school. 😂

  • @jk-mm5to
    @jk-mm5to 3 месяца назад +1

    I think we are returning to the 1929 boarder.

  • @samcotten2416
    @samcotten2416 3 месяца назад +9

    Definitely the most misunderstood president in history, but Detente is the clearest example of where Nixon was wrong and Reagan was right. Nixon's whole attitude toward the Soviets and their satellite states was "Let's figure out how to get along as best as we can, minimize damage, and keep things contained," while Reagan's whole approach to the Soviets was simply, "We win, they lose." In essence, Nixon was right at the retail level but wrong at the corporate level.

    • @scottlaux6934
      @scottlaux6934 3 месяца назад +5

      Even Reagan would talk to Soviet leaders. No name calling like Biden calling Putin " crazy" last week. He is not.

    • @williamgill_esq.6487
      @williamgill_esq.6487 3 месяца назад

      @@scottlaux6934
      Putin is demented.

    • @stevej71393
      @stevej71393 3 месяца назад

      Agreed. I think Nixon's problem was that he didn't grasp the importance of public relations. Nixon wanted to treat the Soviet Union like a formidable chess opponent, while Reagan understood that if global opinion could be turned against the Soviets on their dismal human rights record, they would be on the backfoot strategically.

    • @WingkKong
      @WingkKong 3 месяца назад

      ​@@stevej71393so what after all you still have a hostile russian Which has the ability to destroy America

    • @user-fu9vj9ix3g
      @user-fu9vj9ix3g 3 месяца назад +2

      Good comments. I think the difference was that Nixon was seeing the world as it existed, while Reagn was seeing the world through the emerging neo-Con world view: That the US must defeat the Soviets and Communism.
      Nixon realized that Communism had its merits among Third World nations, and that opposing it in those environments would likely grow into mission creep. He was not a neo-Con who was determined to pay the cost in American lives. As an example, look at the bloodbath in El Salvadore and Nicaragua.
      Reagan's team complimented his own belief that Communism must be defeated in detail - never to return. Also, Reagan saw the fall of the Berlin Wall as justification for all the chest thumping that occurred among those neo-Cons in America. I remember eveyone that was anybody in DC taking the Victory Lap in public. Later a certain Russian ex-KGB officer would not forget that humiliation. I don't think Nixon would have allowed the huge public displays of hubris - knowing what could happen in the future.

  • @claragabbert-fh1uu
    @claragabbert-fh1uu 2 месяца назад

    Fight and oppose rather than Resolve is the huge fallacy of diplomacy. If you don't approve of others, consider relieving them.

  • @kenny73054
    @kenny73054 2 месяца назад

    40 seconds in. 6 years ago? Wasn’t it 8 years ago? May 1972?

  • @clydeblair9622
    @clydeblair9622 3 месяца назад +1

    If Baba Wawa would just shut up!

  • @omaha42000
    @omaha42000 3 месяца назад +9

    BW is so unprofessional, even back then.

  • @tombombadill6159
    @tombombadill6159 3 месяца назад

    Well, i suggest Mr. Vanocur, that if you knew the president, that was probably just a facetious remark.

  • @dennisholst4322
    @dennisholst4322 2 месяца назад

    Wouldn't you like to watch a Nixon vs Biden debate

  • @mikmik1858
    @mikmik1858 3 месяца назад

    That reporter she iwas there covering the 2500 Persian anniversary, who is her?

    • @Nickifoster-hl3ux
      @Nickifoster-hl3ux 3 месяца назад

      Barbara walters

    • @RobMoldovan
      @RobMoldovan 3 месяца назад

      Barbara Walters

    • @luchm4046
      @luchm4046 3 месяца назад

      a very popular news anchor; she also interviewed castro.

    • @mikmik1858
      @mikmik1858 3 месяца назад +1

      @@luchm4046 yeah I saw it

    • @mikmik1858
      @mikmik1858 3 месяца назад +1

      @@luchm4046 yes she was there covering the 2500 Persian anniversary in Iran and interviewed the shah and shahbanu in in 1977

  • @user-bg2it5kf9q
    @user-bg2it5kf9q 2 месяца назад

    Castro:- Caste + RO :=Caste-> Romania

  • @Ace_Of_Bace
    @Ace_Of_Bace 3 месяца назад

    President Nixon forgets, he as Vice President went to Afghanistan and upon returning cute assistance by half; the Russians were more than happy to replace that assistance and here we are.

  • @id15yes2
    @id15yes2 3 месяца назад +1

    Not much fun to be little people standing in the way of superpowers titans doing their titanic politics.

  • @harbinger6562
    @harbinger6562 3 месяца назад +1

    Love and Understanding is a All engulfing Strategy ❤️🇺🇲🇷🇺🦾😇🕊️

  • @user-bg2it5kf9q
    @user-bg2it5kf9q 2 месяца назад

    Ethopia:- ET + Hope + Ya (Extra Terrestrial Hope -> Ya)

  • @garyandrews3925
    @garyandrews3925 2 месяца назад

    Ba Ba Wa Wa.

  • @zackarystewart9214
    @zackarystewart9214 2 месяца назад

    This is why Kennedy was better

  • @grassroot011
    @grassroot011 2 месяца назад

    Better to ask, What would, or did Trump do with Russia? He already showed us that and much more !

  • @donlightfoot9608
    @donlightfoot9608 2 месяца назад

    Walters was the worst thing to happen to American journalism. She turned everything into tabloid fodder.

  • @tahneetran1471
    @tahneetran1471 3 месяца назад +3

    IMO- after reading previews of his book “ Beyond Peace,” President Nixon would support Ukraine with military equipment because of his idealist view of defeating Communism as President Nixon (paraphrasing him ). “Even my conservative Republicans oppose all military aid. We voted for it to deter Soviet aggression in Western Europe for decades and united allies to engage in the struggle. “

  • @williamgill_esq.6487
    @williamgill_esq.6487 3 месяца назад +9

    I hope everyone sees the analogies that Nixon mentions in regards to Afghanistan as it relates to Ukraine. The West reacted with complete appeasement in 2014 when Putin annexed Crimea and fomented a separatist rebellion in Donbas. That appeasement and weakness led directly to Putin’s full scale invasion in 2022.

    • @WingkKong
      @WingkKong 3 месяца назад +1

      Are you joking me
      America has been expanding is power to the east for 30 years
      Just like Napoleon n Germany in ww2

    • @sliftylovesyou
      @sliftylovesyou 3 месяца назад +2

      Crimea and Sevastopol are Russian. The people there voted to become a part of Russia.

    • @run-of-the-mill
      @run-of-the-mill 2 месяца назад +1

      @@sliftylovesyouno, they didn't. Sham “referendum” conducted under the gunpoint is not a referendum.

    • @sliftylovesyou
      @sliftylovesyou 2 месяца назад

      @@run-of-the-mill Conducted under gunpoint? Show me some proof of soldiers coercing the Russian civilians of Crimea to separate.

    • @run-of-the-mill
      @run-of-the-mill 2 месяца назад

      @@sliftylovesyou ruZZian troops appeared on the peninsula as early as February 20th 2014 - almost a month before the so-called "referendum." That's when Crimea's occupation and annexation process began. Those taking part in this process were awarded ruZZia's Ministry of Assault "For the return of Crimea" medals (dated 20 February - 18 March 2014). Putin himself has occasionally admitted to the occupation and annexation in the wake of it (not right away, though; it took him a couple of years). The sham "referendum" was being conducted under factual ruZZian occupation lasting almost a month at that point. Before the "referendum", the actual Crimean government was dismissed and pro-ruZZIan Aksyonov one was installed instead. Do you really think people who had been living on the peninsula under ruZZian troops' control for almost a month prior to the "referendum" would have voted otherwise, not in the favor of ruZZia? Only complete fool would believe that. The occupation and annexation of Crimea was largely condemned by the international community and perceived for what it is, and not what ruZZia or its minions have tried to portray it was. You simply cannot say anything against all these arguments, so there's just no use replying it.

  • @user-mk9qy4yd5t
    @user-mk9qy4yd5t 3 месяца назад

    He knew foreign policy as well as anyone. The interviewer is annoying to listen to.

    • @Rickets1911
      @Rickets1911 3 месяца назад

      “the interviewer” is Barbara Walters. The most famous interviewer of all time.. requested by more presidents than anyone else in journalism

    • @user-mk9qy4yd5t
      @user-mk9qy4yd5t 3 месяца назад

      Yes, I know.

  • @nenadnovakovic3357
    @nenadnovakovic3357 2 месяца назад

    Can someone from US help me. Was Nixon really such a genius, or he was just full of shit? The way I see it at the moment, he was one of the greatest presidents ever.

  • @Rasscasse
    @Rasscasse 3 месяца назад

    Barbara Walters is patently trying too hard. It’s not a good look.

  • @OptimusMonk01
    @OptimusMonk01 2 месяца назад

    Weird how there's only positive comments here about someone so ignorant and naive

    • @gont183
      @gont183 2 месяца назад +1

      What country are you from?

    • @andrewvanhalen1984
      @andrewvanhalen1984 2 месяца назад

      ​@@gont183clearly from this country, but is most likely a dem voter.

    • @gont183
      @gont183 2 месяца назад

      @@andrewvanhalen1984 what country are you from?

  • @michellecrawford9847
    @michellecrawford9847 3 месяца назад

    I don't know how that could be in 1980 because he was impeached in 1974

    • @amansaggi5
      @amansaggi5 3 месяца назад +1

      He wasn’t speaking as the president at that time (that was jimmy carter) but as an elder statesman giving his pov in a television interview with Barbara Walters.

    • @chesslover8829
      @chesslover8829 3 месяца назад

      Nixon was never impeached.

    • @DrHarryZhang
      @DrHarryZhang 2 месяца назад

      Presidents don't lose their ability to speak after leaving office...

  • @a57989
    @a57989 3 месяца назад

    Oh America is different that your era Nixon. It’s getting scre%d, which is good.😂❤

  • @daviddelaney9885
    @daviddelaney9885 3 месяца назад

    Oh, but we had him now as Republican Presidential nominee and soon to be President. What has happened ??