Status Updates From The Cold War: A New History

first of all the whole humphrey's "politics of joy" and getting his ass beaten by nixon is so kamala 2024. humphrey with vietnam being the incumbent vice president etc etc etc. crazy

second gaddis literally cannot stop himself from being yeah so the kent state massacre happened. but one's gotta wonder how much those stupid idiot college students would like being in one of mao's re-education camps!!

like it's. a lot

ok so basically capitalism needed adjustments so as to not throw the world back into the circumstances that were ripe for ww2 and communism was dumb and also stupid and only for authoritarians

ok so basically the contention here is russians are crazy. they're crazy and they want to dominate the world, and the western powers are so rational and so democratic and they taught the russians that if they kill us we kill them back

idk dude that. mmm.

🤨 unfortunately it's entirely possible to me that primitive nuclear fire was exchanged in korea during the cold war so that had me fooled

putting the book down for tonight, dr. gaddis

i'm so zoomed out i feel like i'm in an out of focus civ vi map

like i think this is a primer but the causation is so limited im like wait how the hell are we over here. what do you mean