Status Updates From Soğuk Savaş - Pazarlıklar, ...

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

不知道编辑在删减第七章的时候是什么心情呢

The Soviets operated at least three separate, successful spy operations at Los Alamos during the war; important as an indication of Stalin’s distrust of his allies.

This also disinclined the US from allowing Soviet participation in the occupation of Japan, unlike other states at war with Japan who did maintain smaller garrisons there after the end of the war (per Bass, Judgement at Tokyo).

Soviet management of the Eastern European communist states (particularly Poland) also led the Western occupying powers to govern their portions of Germany more collaboratively to ensure their stability and prevent any Soviet infringement.

Stalin agreed to what amounted to an unfavorable division of Germany in large part because he assumed the western portions would eventually turn communist and unite with the east. Also, the Soviet portion would have been larger had he not apportioned large parts of what had then been eastern Germany to the new Polish state.

The “roots of the Cold War” lay in the Allied Powers/Big Three’s failure to “reconcile divergent political objectives, even as they pursued a common military task.”

Important point that Stalin ended WWII completely determined to secure his personal position, and that of the USSR - with little regard for communist movements abroad, when they could spur cold or hot wars with the US. In the immediate post-war years, the USSR was too weak to achieve its strategic objectives if it ran into pronounced American opposition.