Showing posts with label cold war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold war. Show all posts

Great Movie: "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" a comedy ridiculing absurd fear of the USSR... At that time People in the USA had been driven to the edge of madness by Government Propaganda...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russians_Are_Coming,_the_Russians_Are_Coming 

During an ERA when people were building Bomb Shelters in their basements in order to survive Nuclear War, this movie revealed the histeria... by laughing at fear, we diffused it...



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War The Cold War was a period of time after World War Two when American Corporations who built weapons convinced the Public and Our Glorious Leaders to buy buy buy more Atom Bombs and GOTO Wars fighting The Red Menace in random countries like Korea and Vietnam. 

Great Book: "From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia" by Michael Mcfaul, former Ambassador to Russia

https://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-Hot-Peace-Ambassador/dp/0544716248/ 

 As President Barack Obama’s adviser on Russian affairs, McFaul helped craft the United States’ policy known as “reset” that fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries. And then, as U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, he had a front-row seat when this fleeting, hopeful moment crumbled with Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency. This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of U.S.-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president. 

Maybe we should become Allies with Russia. End the Cold War and learn how to do business together.

What if Trump's right? What if all this anti-Russian panic is absurd? Why don't we stop with all the fear and loathing an let Exxon Mobil drill for oil in Siberia? We had a good partnership in World War Two. Then there was decades of bizarre anti-communist panic.

Well, The Russians simply want to make America another subject country bowing down to Putin's every desire. They already have Czar Donald the Puppet dancing on their strings...

I heard that during the 1950s Senator Joe McCarthy and the House In American Activities Committee hassled folksingers like Pete Seeger about whether or not he was a member of the communist party. People in Hollywood had their careers ruined because the government was afraid that they would use the power of films to influence public opinion and allow Commie Ideas to brainwash the masses. Seems absurd now...

Then we fought wars in Korea, Vietnam and Nicaragua to prevent creeping Communism from taking over the World. Well, we found out that even the USSR and China didn't like Communism. Not much danger of that economic system taking over... In the mean time, the USA lost over 50,000 lives and spent trillions of dollars fighting an enemy that was doomed to fail from within.

Why don't we just learn to get along? Sure, their country has problems. For example: they kill newspaper reporters that criticize Putin and they let their "Mafia" steal all the "Worker's Assets". Yes, THEY have troubles but are they not our troubles but THEIRS? Shouldn't we stop trying to "Improve" their government's behavior by imposing Sanctions? Why can't we be friends?

If we stopped believing the Cold War Brainwashing maybe everyone would be better off...

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