There Was No "Cold" War
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It was hot, but the mentality of "My city isn't being blown up, so there's no hot war" reigned supreme.
It was not hot, a "hot" war involves the exchange of 12,000 thermonuclear ICBM warheads in a total planetary annihilation. But hurr durr zoomers think they can be edgy if they just ignore what words mean and all historical context.
Cope, it was a hot war for everyone that was used as a chesspiece for NATO and the USSR.@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat
@@koshthe1701d DUH, no one calls Vietnam a cold war. No one has ever called Afghanistan a cold war. Like I said this is literally just zoomers pretending that words don't mean what they mean AGAIN. This is all you guys do. You just take a word, change how it's used and what it means, then act like you've made some shocking breakthrough in thought.
It was a Cold War because they were active in attacking each other but it wasn’t known publicly…
It became hot when attacks became open and public and a war was then declared…
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat boomer brain, there was nothing cold about it you only think so because america didnt get bombed.
I think having a anti-nuke guy as the head of the nuke everyone command was the best possible outcome
but they didn't want to listen to Oppenheimer
@@baddreams0919probably because of ”the red scare”
@@baddreams0919I hate that guy so much
@@riverman6462Why? Not that i’m against your opinion but I just genuinely want to know why you would hate him - is it because of his contribution to the nuke (which is a completely valid reason), or is there something else fucked up about him that I’m not aware of?
he didn’t become anti-nuke until after.
CIA assassination speedrun any%
I don’t think he’s considered a threat for now, but he definitely will once he reaches the 500k-1 million
I mean, there is a handful of RUclipsrs who talk about this subject, let alone, if they received this information then it is likely public. Anyone could have a read into them in your spare time.
@@degeneration6493 Yeah, the Central Intelligence Agency has opened many of these records (For Iran as an example.).
Stop acting like he’s giving some crazy knowledge. He has shitty opinions that he post on RUclips.
The FBI or DHS agents went to the home of the guy who runs the Second Thought channel to explicitly threaten and intimidate him after he published a video titled "the CIA is a terrorist organization" that documents the worst of the agency's long track record of reprehensible crimes, subversion, and atrocities around the world since its creation 75 years ago, and apparently the agents told him that he would be considered an accessory to the crime and his content would be labeled as "incitement" if anyone ever committed any violence against the regime after watching his videos, but that channel has nearly 2 million followers and is incredibly popular around the world for that kind of content. These ghouls definitely prioritize targeting the most visible dissidents, if not the most outspoken.
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.
Latin America and Africa were probably the most affected. So much conflict it should be called WW3
@@snipertrader206yes, he said Korea and Indochina
Basically the only places where the Cold War is called the Cold War is in the two competing superpower and Europe.
thats the point
@@snipertrader206
someone doesn't know what Indochina is
Reminder that Kessinger was awarded the nobel peace prize! ☮️
Also worth mentioning that he lived to 100, truly a testament of the old saying; “Only the good die young”.
so was Obama LOL what a joke
Starting to think they have a different dictionary to us.
Rest in piss
@@trulymental7651it make,
sense,if you think of them as the awards of the hypocrites.
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.
There was a movie about the genocide and the government of Indonesia forbade it from being shown in the country lol wonder why
I'm curious if Indonesians learn about this in schools, or if it's like Japan where they deny it @@engqu
@@amoyakissoba Considering they're doing in Papua what they couldn't finish in Timor Leste
Need to clarify a few things.
The government wasn’t really on the socialist side. The government at the time comprised of a unity government based on ideological differences between pan-ism rather than economic ideology (Indonesia was a mixed and is still a mixed economy nation).
The rift was growing within the unity government for a while however the main tipping point were the following:
Socialist support to invade Malaysia and low level invasion of Malaysia by militia forces.
National dissatisfaction at the unity government for not maintain status que.
A shift away from West and Eastern bloc into internal political focus and ASEAN.
On going crisis in neighbouring nations where communist related entities were the aggressor - Malaysia & Brunei (against democratic and monarchy institutions respectively)
On going crisis in neighbouring nations where nationalist were the aggressor - Philippines (dictatorship)
A large number of factors resulted in the cause but frankly Indonesia is an example of where both sides fucked around and found out who won.
The genocide in Papau New genuine is also extremely weird as many locals were supportive of Indonesia cause while others not.
Nothing above I said should be considered as an act of cleansing those crimes but rather to provide understanding.
As for Indonesian history(can’t speak as I didn’t learn it from an Indonesian perspective), it was and still is taught about the atrocities in neighbouring nations while educationally it is something of a yes people know it occurred but it’s just glossed over.
@@amoyakissoba Indonesian here. No we weren't taught about atrocities the Indonesian military committed in both East Timor and West Papua. We were told the classic sugarcoated version which can be dumbed down to "Bad things happen but it's for a good cause, for the good of the nation." Nowadays the common narrative to justify the atrocities is that "If it weren't us, then it's gonna be either the Netherlands or Australia, so better us than them." and we are now making up for it (spoiler alert: next to nothing, while exploitation is still as strong as ever).
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.
Nukes are fake
Isn’t that just a fact? I thought factoid meant „false information presented as fact“
@@pokemonrampagemake" A factoid is either an invented or assumed statement presented as a fact, or a true but brief or trivial item of news or information."
The designed yield was 100 megatons but reduced to 50 megatons. The actual blast was measured as being 59 megatons.
@@pokemonrampagemakeI’m pretty sure a factoid is just a small, or trivial fact/piece of information
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.
A war on the world's poor? Capitalism would never!
And that’s why they try to make college inaccessible and call it “woke”
If u want to a University u usually get thought a progrnda or whitewahsed version of it
@@Bell_plejdo568p no you don't, at least for mine. We go through a bunch of different perspectives. I've read a particular piece in my classes that goes along with this video, The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace by historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin. The sources in that book are from the archives from the countries that were affected and suffered the most, aka not U.S. Sources. You're talking more along the lines of a John Lewis Gaddis perspective, that's the perspective that would be more "whitewashed" as you say.
@@metsisles4358 damn bruh u diffrent
"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.
Como o Brasil se envolveu na guerra fria?
@@GabStLaurentGolpe de 64
@@GabStLaurentlee
@suckatchesspacific background, a misstraslation from portuguese, he inteneded to say "peaceful", which to be fair isnt really true.
Maybe a cold war for those at home, but outside the propaganda insulation, it was* very much hot.
aint hot, its burning
@@ejuss4216 "Napalm sticks to kids!"
the thing has become lava itself@@ejuss4216
It's deeper cold war IS an active war. Perhaps even cold in the sense of cruelty.
It never made much sense to me that the cold war was given the name when there were so many proxy wars.
The way they explained it to us was that it was called the cold war because the US and Russia weren't fighting one another one on one with their own militaries.
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")
I remember taking a Human Rights class last semester and hearing about El Mozote. I ended up getting the book The Massacre at El Mozote by Mark Danner and what I read was just appalling and disgusting, and knowing that the US had a big hand in that just furthered my left wing views
@@kevenlopez2782 Define your positions by principle, not opposition. Reactionary politics are the epitome of tribałism. All empires have had błood on their hands.
@@kevenlopez2782 You had learned very little then. But I cannot blame you if you only get your sources from one side like this channel or that book. Ideally, you should read and learn from all sides and then form your position maturely.
And by the way, my pfp is the shield of El Salvador, I guess you will recognize it.
And I don´t fully agree with the statement of the main op. In the country the people know about, we just don´t care since both sides in the civil war were pure shit and after they both govern the country for the last 40 years nothing changed and everything got worse until recently when a third party managed to win the elections.
@@Krafanio from what I knew, the people of El Mozote were a neutral town, the only reason they sold to the guerrillas was because of their belief that the guerrillas would leave them alone, which happened for the most part. However when the Atlacatl came into the village, they were murdered, with some girls as young as 12 being raped. The Atlacatl were trained by the US through the School of Americas. Think what you what but I can assure you that I’m more aware than you might think. Almost all countries in Central America are littered with the issue of narcotrafficking; the reason it isn’t being solved is because every government official in one way or another has their pockets depending on their profits. Nayib Bukele is only a show-leader.
@@kevenlopez2782 Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez seems to have been solving the crime issue. As for El Salvador here *SIGH* are you sure "they sold to the guerrillas" because that makes them accomplices, which does not justify their massacre of course. I must also question why that furthers your left-wing views whilst the murder of Ethiopian children during their red terror does not further your right-wing views.
Hans, are we the baddies?
Very much so. America has destabilized Asia the Middle East South and Central America and the Caribbean.
Appreciate your work on these videos, the facts you present and the clear way you present them are far above most RUclips essayists.
Nothing is clear, it is obfuscation. Notice how he will say "America funded proxies in Vietnam" but then fails to mention the CCP and Soviets funded proxies first. It would be like saying "this guy shot a man!" and then failing to mention that man was burglarizing his house.
He is a sophist edutainer, nothing more nothing less.
You can clearly see the only people mad at him are clueless indoctrinated yankees. They will always be against facts no matter what
I disagree; this was quite badly presented.
The selective cherry-picking of reporting only one side here should be obvious enough for any intelligent and impartial observer to decide to look elsewhere for guidance. Nothing here has adequate context or describes any relation to other events. There is nary a motive to be mentioned, and virtually no historical background was included to contextualize anything.
@@nails11 Most of what he says is USSR propaganda. America was called in by the South Vietnamese to help their war effort, because allowing the Chinese to invade first would have been catastrophic (which they ended up doing anyway in the 1975) secondly, this guy lies about the Korean war. The North Korean army invaded South Korea and massacred the most civilians.
Why is it imperialism when America helps its allies like Korea or South Vietnam, but they claim it is not imperialism when China does the same? This is pure propaganda.
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.
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.
I don't think it even comes close. At least 70 million people died during WW2, some of the most brutal conflicts like the Vietnam War and Korean War didn't kill more than 4 million. There is simply nothing even close to WW2 by total deaths.
you know the Cold War lasted 45 years ww2 lasted 6 years
@@8is maybe total deaths isn’t that important anymore people in iraq and syria now prefer death than what’s happening there after invasion
@@abderahmandj3845_muslim Syria was destroyed by the Assad regime and its people. I don’t blame the people though, the Arab Spring could’ve worked, the people of Syria simply failed. At least the Kurds got autonomy.
Oh and ISIS just had to die. We should all be grateful to the US for how helpful they were to the Kurds and the Iraqi army for training them and giving them air support in their fight against ISIS.
@@abderahmandj3845_muslim Iraq is a free country with a democratic state and for @~?£'s sake there are no roaming death squads! You see many Kurds being murdered? Oh wait what is that the Americans were protecting them in the '90s with a no-fly zone?
“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.
The latter book is not written by a historian and by the 1980s the United States was not planning on winning a nuclear war. Ronald Wilson Reagan was probably the most anti-nuclear President ever.
How do you find them? It’s $100 on amazon.
How do you find them? It’s $100 on amazon.
It's amazing how we criticized the Soviet Union's treatment of the Eastern European States post WW2, and then arguably set out to do almost the same in South America.
Not to mention some dictatorships in Africa, or Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and West Germany being politically controlled by debt traps and election rigs. Oh and France's 1968 coup organized by the US, cuz Charles de Gaulle dared to ask America for Frances gold back in 1965, when he realised the US was printing dollars and abandoning the gold standard. He pissed them off by sending 750 million dollars, and getting back 800 kilos of gold.
The US did far far worse in south america
idk bro some of the attempted ethnic cleansing and russification was pretty crazy, but america just overthrew the government and killed people, both pretty evil
@@americancommunist6076 at least they didn’t get they territory and mismanaged the whole region, but I mean as a consequence of the coups, there was the spread of the envy corrupt ideology of communism so you are right
It's even more amazing that people will fail to remember that the USSR were directly complicit in the rise of Nazi Germany.
In fact Weimar Germany had already collaborated with weapons testing in western Russia (covert violation of the ToV) since at least 5 years _before_ the Nazis were voted in.
Molotov-Ribbentrop was a "dandy wink-wink' for how to split up Poland should some 'accident' occur.... _Socialists gonna socialize, yo._
Runners up:
-US complicity in the Bangladesh genocide
-Explicit and covert support for apartheid South Africa
-Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
I find it funny how the West and the media try to paint Russia as some sort of evil entity when in reality it's not.
Hell, the supposed "communist fear" was unjustified and was doomed to fail from the start if it ever were to happen in many countries since Communism (which many Americans can't understand), is only really a method to take down corrupt governments and it's up to said country who used communism whether to go full commie, become capitalist (again, if that was their previous set-up) or make a capitalist/communist hybrid like what a few commie nations have done like China, Libya, Vietnam and a few others.
Russia wasn't that big of a threat and it became even more apparent once Stalin died since he was the crazy Georgian that Russians were afraid to fckkk with.
Hell, even China broke ties with Russia after Stalin died and did it's own thing.
Whereas for the US?
The US loves to meddle in things they shouldn't be meddling with and our history books and especially the media has painted them as some sort of "guardian" when in reality, America is just one big douche that thinks they're a god.
let's not talk about the reds tho right?
”Both sides” used poor countries as their playground for wargames
@@maximvs272 sorry McCarthyism isn't a thing anymore, but America has talked enough about the USSR being bad. So, it's not that you aren't allowed, it's that a majority of people don't care anymore. And on the other hand, learning about how much the government lied to line the pockets of war profiteers has only been possible through the slow declassification of decades old military documents. Obviously more people are going to be interested in talking about current events and not topics that their grandparents might have heard when they were the same age.
@@Alex-ff1mk at least the Russians admitted that their bureaucratic system wasn't achieving its intended goals and tried something else out. American arms manufacturers still refuse to admit that their political influence led to the unnecessary deaths of millions of innocent citizens merely so they can have a bit more money in the bank.
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.
I call it a sexy war
It was the very World War 3 that most people are still thinking is always around the corner.
that's exactly why its called the cold war in the US, for everybody else outside of the first world? Just the continuation of what has always been happening for all of history, war, famine, rebellions, civil wars. Just this time it was sponsored by two Empires who controlled entire parts of the world.
I'd say the same.
It was a "Cold war", a war between the major powers, but not necessarily a war a agression but rather a war of intelligence, power and influence.
Thank you for keeping us educated, hope you won't get CIA's journalism award after all. God bless you.
the ultimate seal of approval. unalived by 6 bullets to the head
A youtube video is not education, it is entertainment.
@@amazin7006 tell me about it
They won’t kill him, they’ll probably just get RUclips to delete his channel
@@amazin7006ignorant
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.
It only means there was no direct action in a declaration of war.
They tried to keep it seceret
@@pazsion Yes. No official direct action between the US and USSR.
The reason why all these smaller very real conflicts make up the “Cold War” was because they were all influenced by the worlds two great superpowers who never had a direct all out conflict, but instead influenced smaller conflicts to grow their influence and diminish the others. No one says their wasn’t fighting in the Cold War, it was called the Cold War because it never spilled over into the Largest War Humanity Has Ever Seen.
every video he makes makes me smarter fr
me and my homies like learning
@@manny7289learning is op
Every video he makes, we are closer to CIA death list🤣
Watching RUclips 16hr a day is like school or something
school could never 🙍🏽♂️🙍🏽♂️🙍🏽♂️🫥🫥🫥
Absolutely adore this channel, a true treasure amongst the endless sea of RUclips essayists, willing to go far beyond what even the bravest of them could dare.
He’s just choosing one side to attack in his videos. Not much different than everyone else. One side will say USA is bad while others will say communist
You say as he paints the most one sided and incomplete picture anyone has on this platform. He didn't mention a single thing the eastern bloc did leaving everything the western bloc did out of context. Image a video about WW2 criticizing every bombing campaign the allies conducted without mentioning anything about the nature of the war, who started the war, what was happening on the ground, who gave material support, etc.
This is just anti-American propaganda and it could even pass as you're average Soviet propaganda.
@@8is yup, that’s what I’ve noticed as well, like it’s fine to call out USA atrocities but that’s just every country. No country is an innocent pacifist
@@8is That's because everyone already heard everything about USSR and Nazi Germany atrocities when they were ONE-SIDEDLY presented to them everywhere. This is the first time I have seen someone on RUclips mention the millions of innocent people who tasted the true side of US politics. The way "free" media is presented to people in the west is just an upgraded censorship where you give the victim a feeling of freedom and truth. Also its really not original to call something you don't like to hear "soviet propaganda", are you going to send someone to poison their coffee and start a civil war in their backyard too ?
I have gone 28 years knowing about the soviet tragedies. Figuring out the truths and propaganda America spreads. God you see one video that talks about all the fucked up shit your country does and you tattle like a child even though everyone is aware. Just be silent the video is about America
I really liked your videos on the Vietnam and Iraq war. Can you do a video on the 2006 Hezbollah vs Israel war? It’s like israel version of the Vietnam war. How a country who beat the Arabs in 6 days was put into a 33 day war on Hezbollah terms. How they destroyed an Israeli ship on live tv despite IDF bombing Hezbollah media centres 15 times, how they were able to stop the merkava tanks using kornet anti tank missiles, and how Israel tried conquering bint jbeil for 2 weeks, and ayt Al shab for all 33 days using the best elite units and still failing their objectives.
This is why they want to take all of Palestine, the strength of Palestinians scares them. 🇵🇸💪
You really want him to get that award lol
@@officerdonut7066 what do you mean?
@@jnoub2947 the journalism award
@@officerdonut7066the cias top guy award
If I might make a video suggestion, look into the atomic soldiers. Made short, half a million American servicemen were exposed to nuclear weapons testing, much of the time without being told about it. Very neat, very unethical.
Once again great video, thank you for the information, although this was closer to a summary of a few other videos you did, there were still tidbits I didn't know. I am never surprised, but always shocked at how scummy American history is, especially in the 20th century
Yeah, American soldiers are just pawns. When asked to they commit atrocities without realizing most of the time, and when they can no longer do their jobs they get tossed aside and replaced like a toothbrush.
That’s a really good topic to make Americans realize that the government was always just using them.
@@jvaler5 How ignorant.
@@armannstraughter3296did They, the americans and the west in general and their puppets and boot lickers give any tears when they killed a total of over 250-500 million people, just in the last 200 years?
NNN
@@armannstraughter3296American butchers deserve a lot worse.
The portability question everyone asks is "can it run doom". They were asking "can it start it". Launching a nuke from a jeep is crazy.
This is great work, thank you. Cheers from Guatemala!!!
“Why do you hate America?”
Me:
Yet it’s not Americas that’s doing this, but a small group intertwined with the government…
We should be singling them out instead of say USA did this or that… that’s not true. Individuals and groups manipulate these governments…
Ukraine is a great example of this… dragged in two superpowers over lies while they were actually stealing resources.
And these were corporations not countries that did this. And for profit.
Create a situation, present a solution, maximize profits from the situation
Set it up to cause the most deaths possible to reduce population
@@pazsion you may be right but ask yourself, why was america founded? by who?
@@innawoods.larper this lol
@@innawoods.larperthing is not all Americans and Jews stand for it.
The first 5 minutes and 40 seconds of this video constantly had me thinking about the utter mind boggling luck it took for nuclear weapons to not have been used during all those times. It's rather apparent that people really wanted to use them but some how the decision came to be to say no. What a miracle.
The US really showed an incredible devotion to restraint when they could've easily ended the bloodshed in Korea or Vietnam for example, but they knew that it would ultimately be for the worse since it would've set a dangerous precedent. Mostly thanks to the presidents of the first nuclear power, we have the complete opposite precedent where it is *extremely* taboo to nuke other countries if you're not defending yourself.
How about Americans, and indeed the soviets, were not so crazy as people want you to think?
Staging giant fireworks is different from firebombing cities. But yes it is a miracle that they didn't genoc!de people just because
In fact, an order from USSR's CenCom _was_ given to fire nuclear warheads - _on TWO separate incidents!_ (1962 and 1983)
You can thank Yasily Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov for being alive today and for knowing better than their so-called 'superior officers'.
@@shaft9000Untrue. In Arkhipov’s case the order came from 2 other officers who had believed nuclear war had started. They had NO contact with the outside world. In the second case an automated warning system detected a nuclear warhead, but he believed it would be foolish for only one warhead to be sent at a time, so he decided to pretend nothing happened and not tell anyone - ultimately the right call.
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.
The Vietnam War was a cash grab for military manufacturers, especially companies like Bell Helicopter, makers of the ubiquitous Huey, fighting communists was just a convenient coincidence
This makes me nauseous with anger and grief
It was cold by the fact the whole worlds atmosphere wasn’t turned into lava
I actually can say that this is "Global Warming". The Cold War was everything except for "Cold". It's increible to know all about Yarborough Doctrine as a Colombian, I will never expect that the United States would launch a program like that taking into account what violence and paramilitary stuff means to us, the Colombia People. Greeting
Cold War as in no American troops fought Soviet troops. American and Russian troops fought against other countries, but not each other directly. The literal meaning. So, yes there was a Cold War between the US and Soviets.
I genuinely do not understand how a country can commit this many fuckups and crimes against humanity, and still be the most revered, one of the most powerful and completely unpunished nations in the world.
I fear the answer is in your question- we've committed arguably the worst of the worst crimes against humanity the world has ever seen. We are essentially the crack head at the international corner store, and anyone who would give us even a passing glance would be at the end of our cruel military machine. Perhaps we were never revered, but only ever feared, and by proxy that fear allowed us to be unpunished, and furthering the power of the US over global order. We really live in the worst reality.
Two reasons:
World superpower
It isnt as uniquely bad as this guy makes It seem
These wars still have grandchildren who have to live with the consequences of what America and USSR did
True. Although the USSR is less at fault imo. Their intervention was far more regional.
@@tempejklTheir afghanistan intervention caused double the amoubt of casualties than the Vietnam war.
And they also supported extremist groups all across latin america that killed hundreds of thousands.
One thing from a technical standpoint here:
large nuclear weapons mostly incinerate their surroundings and flatten a comparatively small area, irradiating almost nothing and leaving significant but disproportionately little fallout, with more meaningful fallout for ground detonations. In many ways they act like giant conventional bombs or omnidirectional heat rays.
Small nukes do not behave like this. Something like the Davy Crockett will send copious amounts of fallout into the air, and irradiate to death people who would be fine if they only needed to be concerned with the blast and heat. The primary use of most designs below 1 kT is radiological, while the primary use of 1 kT and above are blast and thermal.
The worst crime was creating the title “Sack commander”
If you want some sobering reading, consider the very, very short list of nuclear weapon concepts that were too insane even for the US and USSR to field: FOBS, cobalt bombs and SLAM.
I assume cobalt bombs are dirty bombs.
In other words bombs with the main purpose of spreading nuclear particles to contaminate as much area as possible?
@@maplearrow1842 cobalt bombs are to dirty bombs as the black death is to the common cold. Think a cloud of radioactive particles that can kill in minutes and last for decades, blanketing an area the size of a small country. Like a neutron bomb that goes off continuously for a hundred years. Thermonuclear weapons are city destroyers, these things are civilization removers.
And thankfully they are also one of the few weapons that nobody has been stupid enough to try and develop, let alone field.
Cobalt bombs and neutron bombs were in fact made. And the us and Russia have them, so does isreal… isreal used a nuclear bunker buster in Syria.
Cobalt-60 bombs aren’t just dirty bombs but use cobalt just like plutonium… it’s 60x more radioactive at ignition and emits mostly gamma rays and the radiation doesn’t dissipate for a million years…
Cobalt-60 is toxic enough to use as just a dirty bomb… but they like their “advanced” weapons
Slam was actually built and tested … but wasn’t finalized and funding went elsewhere when it was determined they would be irradiating themselves if such a weapon was deployed.
And it was very difficult to get the nuclear engine to run consistently without melting.
@@pazsion sort of. The engine was tested, but the whole package was never put together or launched. The guidance system did see a second life onboard tomahawk cruise missiles though.
SLAM is fascinatingly awful btw - I've seen analysis that seems to show that you could a lethal dose of radiation just by seeing it coming towards you. The nuclear core which powered the ramjet was outputting something like 2GW of thermal energy when running and was completely unshielded, so you can just imagine how many x-rays, gamma rays and neutrons would be coming out of it in flight.
This video was one hell of a learning journey. I have binged through around 4-5 of your videos and its refreshing to see such content back on my feed. Also, I think adding your sources and links in the description might help out a lot for the people who are curious enough about these events. Thanks again for the vid! Keep up the good work!
You should talk about the US-backed dictatorships in Latin America during the cold war, the coup d'etats against democratically elected governments, the results of operation Condor and the repression and terrors practiced by those governements.
If you side with the soviets, why should you exist as a state? Granted that latter part that was pretty @~?£ed up (Mainly Argentina weirdly. An odd case too since they went to war with Britain which America supported, so did Chile.).
@@johnnotrealname8168 If you side with the US, why should you exist as a state?
@sheeplikethedead A commitment to freedom, democracy and the rule of law compared with tyranny? Even a one-to-one comparison works mate. An opposition to communism is enough for me though.
@@johnnotrealname8168OBSESSED!!!
@@johnnotrealname8168 Democracy hahaha. Tell that to the central american peasants...tell that to my dad.
Honestly im convinced the entirety of the cold war wasn't just ideological with communism vs capitalism in complex terms but it was mostly the rich exploitation of the poor or the rich vs the poor overall.
You described capitalism with the latter half
Bingo! And guess what, it never ended...
Yep. A global class war. People knew it would end up like this which is why people were willing to fight so hard. The end result would be the enslavement of the human race. If only people knew about the technology they would have now they have to keep us in chains now…
They ENTIRE history, every revolution and struggle is a matter os class conflict. Rich vs Poor, always, in general terms.
“The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle”
Can you do a video on the Soviets in afganistan, or on the guerilla war in west papua.
Can you make videos on the Soviet-Afghan war and Chechen wars?
He wont, hes a russian shill¨
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!!!
does not have to be poor racism, it could just be simple optics protection... we cant have the good guys look bad can we? it just so happens all eyes were on europe so nobody cared about rest of the world... things dont change much i guess, altho if i was to pick a war that was inferently racist in that time it would probably be algerian war of independence
@@BBanzaj the algerian war of independence wasnt racist, it was a colonial power trying to keep a colony, and colonies arent colonized because of race.
@@chelo4197 race was invented to legitimize colonial occupation and exploitation
@@theideaofevil Conceptions of race have existed for thousands of years and across cultures.
These colonial wars are indeed talked about.
I have never been disturbed by videos like this but this hits hard. it actually show how blatant everyone was back then showing there were no repercussions for minipulating and controling countries. I bet this still goes on today but it more hidden.
Villalba testified in court that Álvaro Uribe (he is a very popular expresident now, who still holds tons of political and military power) and his brother, Santiago Uribe, created several paramilitary groups. Villaba was shot two weeks later of that statement. The hitmen used silencers.
He was part of a criminal group called Los 12 Apóstoles. Each member had things to say about Alvaro Uribe and each one of them have been killed or were vanished.
Everything around Uribe smells like death, even though he is popular with the masses thanks to the red panic. The only political weapon Uribe has ever used is an eternal fight against comunism.
Is even suspected that the CIA helped druglords to build their traffic routes to the US. It is crazy to think that some oldman in an office can create a hurricane that lasts for dacades, with a single stroke of a pen.
I support the USA, But god damn Do i Hate the CIA. and i am trying to do more research. about what your saying.
@@TywinLannister0 It should also be borne in mind that the U.S. supported land-reform, unlike collectivisation that the communists just loved.
Uribe was in the early 2000s... not the cold war....
I highly recommend that you create a mirror of these videos on another platform and let us know how we can find you once this channel inevitably gets deleted
We live in this same society. This same government. I can't accept this evil. The people must act, we must demand change by any means...
XD
Its too late for "demanding change" in the west
Infact its so late that your at the "must revolt as soon as possible" stage and your chances of a succesful revolt get slimmer by the day
It's like you didn't listen to the video lol. It literally demonstrates what happens when morons try to get their way using 'any means' the other side will resort to worse tactics.
I would think people are smarter these days and will find a better way of doing political changes without using violence.
@@BSentalmao idk about that
The USA´s government changes from time to time, it is at it´s core still a democracy with changing presidents etc, while Russia and China are literally still the same. I don´t want to defend anything bad the USA did but still. And today´s government for example supports Ukraine, so not everything they do is bad.
15:06 would love to see a video on Operation AJAX. Thank you again for your insightful work.
After the 1953 coup, the Shah's government formed the SAVAK (secret police), many of whose agents were trained in the United States. The SAVAK monitored dissidents and carried out censorship. After the 1971 Siahkal Incident, it was given a "loose leash" to torture suspected dissidents with "brute force" that, over the years, "increased dramatically", and nearly 100 people were executed for political reasons during the last 20 years of the Shah's rule.[129]: 88, 105 After the revolution, SAVAK was officially abolished, but was in reality "drastically expanded" into a new organization that killed over 8,000-12,000 prisoners between 1981 and 1985 alone, and 20,000-30,000 in total, with one prisoner who served time under both the Shah and the Islamic Republic declaring that "four months under (Islamic Republic's) warden Asadollah Lajevardi took the toll of four years under SAVAK".[129][141][142]
It was arguably legal, the Shah sanctioned it obviously.
The thing is, that is exactly the concept of cold war I would think everyone had.
Armsrace and proxy wars / agents behind coups
Gdf i love your videos, but could you please link your sources in video descriptions? Much love from Croatia
Pretty one sided version of the 20th century war crimes there
Very
Kinda ignored how the soviets killed 2 million people in Afghanistan alone.
You've already been told hundreds of times what the Russians had done during this time period. Do you really need another video repeating the exact same stuff?
@@Qwertyuiopaz Most people don't know the true scale of what they did in Afghanistan tho.
@@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding I guess, but the whole Afghanistan war was a complete mess. There really was no good side there. I do suppose it should be talked about more
Man, when those numbers started rolling in it just shocked me knowing that that many people where killed
A list of your sources in the description would be awesome
"There was no "cold war"." hardest line ever made❄️❄️❄️❄️😬😬😬😬
the sadness of history fills me with such sorrow. God help us
>"Haha yes finally someone else agrees the cold war wasn't real"
>look inside
>its someone saying the war wasn't cold
So glad I found this channel. Well presented and well sourced, telling the real truths
I realize this yesterday playing world of tanks, when they had a cold war tanks section, and I had to think to myself " when did tank warfare take place during the Cold war" if you're willing to look outside the box, then a lot of places had TW.
And I'm just saying essentially what's going on in Ukraine is a small scale continueation
Iraq-iran, Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Egypt isreal 6 day war, Rhodesia and other African wars all come to mind
@@officerdonut7066Syria too.
And Afghanistan.
They were used along the most militarised border in history.
Well it’s still called a “cold” war even though there were a lot of conflicts since if it had gone hot nobody would be talking about anything anymore
Basically, the entire video is stupid.
It can basically be boiled down to "People call it cold war but really there were some hot wars! Therefore it wasnt actually cold!"
As if that's some sort of revalation.
No shit there were were wars involving both sides but they were all PROXY-wars meaning the war between the USSR and NATO was COLD.
When's the video about the other side? Clearly there's something there, since at 18:10 you **just barely** leave out the Soviets mass murders.
Maybe because those are overly focus in the last three decades, and everyone till their grandma already known about those, it always surprise me the level of denial of the U. S. citizens of the crimes of their own government.
@@TheKeyser94With that logic noone should care about Nazi Germany's crimes because we've spent the last 80 years talking about them
@@ASlickNamedPimpback And if you had any decent history class they would teach you about the massacres of Stalin (one that Roosevelt and Churchill help to cover by the way, because they were allies at the time), the purges, and the gulags, they have been teaching that since the Soviet Union fell, but only now we are becoming to understand the huge ramification of the U. S. crimes, that they are still doing by the way.
@@TheKeyser94I'm confused. Are you suggesting that I don't know about the gulags? Because I do, even if I wasn't taught it in any of my Canadian history classes.
In any case, I wonder what the ramifications of the current Russian and Chinese crimes will be. Who knows, given that not many actually cover them.
@@ASlickNamedPimpback Really? All the journalist and oligarchs that Russia and China killed in the last twenty years were all over the news, but for example the kill of the journalist that uncover the HBBC scandal was low key, there was no guilty party, even most of the western world were possible suspects, basically like the Epstein case.
There was. Half of the world wasn't at war with each other at the same time.
amazing video as always, great work!
Imagine being Thailand in the 1960's and 70's. Literally ALL your neighbors are at war, suffering from violent conflict, or undergoing authoritarianism or genocide. China to the north is ushering in Mao's Cultural Revolution. Vietnam and Cambodia to the East are under heavy bombardment from the Americans, civil wars, and genocide. Malaysia and Indonesia to the south are cracking down suspected communists within their own countries while East Timor is being genocided. Myanmar/Burma to the West is suffering from constant military coups and considering implementing its own Cultural Revolution.
Thailand was the only nation and democracy in that region that was in peace. It must have been terrifying to have been surrounded by so much conflict, wondering if it will come knocking at your door.
But Thailand did suffer a lot of cups during that time, didnt they?
Bro you are a big W. But may I ask? Is GDF nickname connected to Gaddafi somehow? Always been interested
@BrokenSociety966 ye I remember that. That’s the one of the reasons why am asking. Just want to confirm
Thanks for posting back to back
I hope GDF doesnt die of drowning at 16 shots in his chest due to suicide
GFP is the GOAT with every videos he post
0:01 NOT MY CABBAGES!
Excellent work! Absolutely underrated channel!!
I love your videos! Do something about Egyptian politics i
1950-Present please
I did not knew about the Mayan genocide
bro I love your work this is just a constructive critcissm regarding the mixing of your audio. Bump up the levels a bit. You may be scared of peaking the sound levels but dont worry it probably wont happen even if you push your Db up. Its just that I can barely hear your vids on full blast
I love your channel. You are doing a great work and a very important one.
Best videos out there on these topics! Thank you!
You're well on your way to the highest award in investigative journalism lol
For what exactly..?
@@spoodurmin9742 pssst...the "lol" at the end
@@shaft9000 didnt see that OOPS
Should be taught in classrooms. Like, share, and be wise and bold. Do not cower, do not submit. The hard times are yet to come, prepare while you can!
I've been watching your videos and i can't thank you enough for all you've been telling, I'm from brazil and the majority of the people here doesn't know that the U.S.A was behind our military dictatorship, it's a real horror how so many people died because of the U.S.A and we don't hear about it, keep up the good work man, your videos are a mind opening experience
We are human but really not human . We are horrible to each other for no reason other than greed
Me and my homies love to learn 💯
I can’t understand how anyone could watch a video like this and not support the absolute right of every individual to own and carry any and all manner of weapons in any and all times and places.
Idk maybe everyone else is just normal? You do you tho
@@LegoAlex99 when you hear of death squads executing people you don’t think “gee if a death squad was gonna come after me I’d sure like to have military weapons available to me and the other potential victims”?
@@LegoAlex99self defense is normal. letting yourself be raped is not
@@FLAM1nWaffl3x no shit Einstein
@@126theman lol no bc I'm normal
Great video, but I hoped you would talk about Europe or USSR
It goes sooo much deeper too; everything we associate with/consider characteristic of the ‘Cold War’ era could reasonably be said to have been established around or even before World War I.
Speaking of which, you should check out _The Empire Never Ended_ podcast, especially their series “The F-Files”
Vol.III (pt.1-5)…
* pt.1 - Hypnotized Blood, Magic Mushrooms, and the CIA
* pt.2 - The Woo-ling Class Plays Science
* pt.3 - Remote Viewing, Dianetics, and the Competent Man
* pt.4 - Project Stargate and the First Earth Battalion
* pt.5 - “Charlie Makes Murder Crystals”
… and Vol. IV…
* Group 69, Psionic Warfare with Serbian Characteristics
* pt.2 - Group 69 Battles Aum Shinrikyo for the Astral Plane
… as well as their couple episodes on the American Legion
Not to mention the genocide in East Pakistan (1971) which was also supported and funded by the Americans.
Please keep making videos. People are watching. Hopefully people who don't already know how f'ed things are.
Omg, the operation title being “siop” and the way you highlighted the letters sent me into orbit
Great video! never stops me from rewatching all your videos!
I’m just wondering but where’d you get this footage from? 12:46
phenomenal content. Planning on becoming a patreon when i'm able to afford
@GDF, when are you coming onto the Deprogram Podcast?
bro you are uploding so many videos very nice keep working !
Dude this channel is a goldmine.
With all that napalm it must have been a pretty hot scenario
True. It was hot A.F. in Afghanistan from 1970s,soviet invasion in 1980s,civil war 90s then of course US invasion 2000s and occupation until 2021.
Hope Afghans finally gain peace and emerge as a great Nation
God damn we are the villains.
Excellent choice of visual for Westmoreland
What happened to your video on Gary Webb?
My heart broke just from looking at the thumbnail...
@GDFofficial could you make a video on the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971.
Great channel. Where has this channel been. Never in my algorithm but includes everything I watch