Comments by "RiteMo LawBks" (@ritemolawbks8012) on "The Cold War" channel.

I wonder if the Great Famine and the generation of survivors played a role in the creation of wet markets, and the appetite for exotic foods.
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How much has the judiciary has changed since the Soviet Republics declared independence. I believe the comrade courts have been abolished in the Russian Federation and Belarus, but there should have been many experienced judges and lawyers who practiced law under the communist system. After declaring independence in 1776, the US maintained English Common Law legal and the economic system of the British Empire. There are still laws and procedures that originated in a British, as judge-made law or statute passed by Parliament. This is a lengthy post, but I'm sure many of the legal customs and procedures from the Russia Empire and the Soviet Union have been adopted by Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine as they transitioned from the Soviet legal system.
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I hope today's a great day for you. Stay cool because just like in the Cold War, it won't take much for climate change to make it HOT.
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Although this occurred while Taipei ("Republic of China") had been the official representative of China on the UN Security Council, it's a rare historical example of two nuclear powers engaged in direct military conflict. Fortunately, it was resolved, diplomatically, and didn't escalate to become a global conflict, involving weapons of mass destruction. With the current tensions and geopolitical environment, the Sino-Soviet Border War is relevant and should be discussed more. The ultimate goal should always be to resolve international disputes peacefully, but if war can't be avoided, the level of restraint used in this conflict should be emulated.
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It's not really from the host or writers of this show. The "CIA coup d'état" designation comes from the declassified documents connecting and confirming the US and British government role in the operation. The following is available on the Operation Ajax Wikipedia page and the documents from the CIA archives. --------- "CAMPAIGN TO INSTALL PRO-WESTERN GOVERNMENT IN IRAN." TARGET: Prime Minister Mossadeq and his government OBJECTIVES: Through legal, or quasi-legal, methods to effect the fall of the Mossadeq government; and To replace it with a pro-Western government under the Shah's leadership with Zahedi as its Prime Minister -----------
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Hello, fellow cold warriors and comrades. I'm from the future. Just want to let you guys from the past know that The Espionage Act of 1917 will become relevant once again during the 2020s. I can't tell you all of the specifics, but it involves one of the former client of this guy @ 👉🏾6:20. Before Roy Cohn's untimely death and disbarment, he had some "interesting" clients.
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Russian bot.
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Just A Suggestion: The intro graphic @ [ 0:27 ] wisely has the American side represented by the Statue of Liberty, Coke, an M-16 rifle, and a Big Mac. On the Soviet Russia side, a matryoshka doll, vodka, AK-47, and a strange Russian 🤮 dish are there, but an ushanka hat and St. Basil's Cathedral would have been more recognizable to people who've never been to Russia.
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@marmary5555 The information will always be incomplete, but that's a dramatic change in the way US and British involvement was covered in documentaries and the media. Before the CIA declassified the US involvement and US-UK business interest, it was considered to be mostly outlandish claims anti-Western Iranian revolutionaries and conspiracy theories.
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He's neutral. He didn't claim the US was bad or the Soviets were good. During the Cold War, the US was more militaristic and hostile to any socialist regimes. The US had Monroe and Truman Doctrines, so adopting communism was tantamount to a war declaration against Nato. The Soviets had a region sphere of influence, but post WWII the US had business and political interest across the global and in space.
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That was part of the costs of their WWI and WWII victories. Despite ending colonialism, the UK wisely formulated a foreign policy doctrine and geopolitical strategy that ensures Britain's economic and overseas interests are closely aligned with the US. It might still be a form of imperialisms and highly controversial to this day, but an example of the Special Relationship would be the 1953 CIA/MI6-backed Coup In Iran. The democratically elected Iranian government passed a law seizing the assets of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now, "British Petroleum"), but the US and Britain overthrew the government and reinstalled the anti-communist and pro-Western Shah of Iran to power.
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That's still no reason for the Soviets to feel threatened by the US+UK-led hegemony in West Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Middle East, British Raj, and the former British Empire/Commonwealth. I'm kidding. It makes sense now why Stalin saw the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as more of a demonstration for Moscow rather than the best method to quickly end the War in Japan and save lives.
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The purpose wasn't to conquer and colonize Vietnam. It was a proxy war to display that the US would be willing to go to war, regardless of the cost, in order to contain the spread of communism. Eventually, the US realized the Vietnamese people never posed a threat to the US.
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Have you seen this one? https://youtu.be/8JZBtTGFQpI
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That's true. They had also completed, arguably, the greatest military victory in history. Even without nukes, it was a superpower with vast amounts of land, people, and natural resources at it's disposal. Neither side wanted another war between the superpowers. With direct military conflict off the table, espionage, arms race, proxy wars, and economic warfare would determine which side would win the Cold War.
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I guess the US media lying to Indians, Russian, and the rest of the world (except New Zealand) because they all have a war on Covid-19.
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@thunderbird1921 That's a good question. I'd have to find out. One way to check for independence is when (or if) the government loses a case. I know India has true judicial independence, but the CCP might still have show trials because they were able to hold Canadians for ransom when there was a dispute with a Huawei executive charged and arrested in Canada for violating US sanctions against Iran. I'm not familiar with Chinese laws, but the whole Uygur vocational training camps situation seems extra-judicial. That's a long way to say, "I don't know."
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That's a stereotype of Russians in general during post-war negotiations. After WWII, there was a rush to surrender to the US and UK because the Russians were expected to "kill everyone."
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@reserva120 That's linked to Russia and Eastern Slavic countries, and it predated the Soviet Union, Marxism, and communism. It's been a stereotype since Ivan the Terrible and Catherine the Great. The 20th-Century genocides you're talking about are the purges, holodomor, man-made famines, gulags, "No Step Back Directive," and Kaytn massacre that happened mostly at the direction of Stalin. Yes. Stalin killed thousands of Poles after invading with Hitler, who killed 6,000,000 Poles. The indiscriminate killing, scorched-Earth policy, and war crimes are the stereotypes I'm talking about. The same claim has been made against Yeltsin and Putin in Ukraine, Georgia, Syria, and Chechen. It's more to do with Russophobia that Russian themselves have contributed to spreading.
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@elmersbalm5219 I'm familiar with it. That was the containment strategy and Truman Doctrine. After WWII, the Soviet Union wasn't just called a superpower out of sympathy. It had the largest military. Geography made it possible to contain them, but the Soviet Armed Forces and the US Military were both equally matched.
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@elmersbalm5219 If the nukes were used, did you expect the USSR to just surrender like Japan? The mutually assured destruction put nukes off the table. Direct military conflict was mostly off the table as well. Proxy wars, economic warfare, terrorism, and espionage were the only tools available to both sides.
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Just let me know when you're ready to start the revolution, on behalf of the proletariat, and give the workers ownership of the means of production. I need to know, so I'll have time to escape. I'm part of the yacht-owning class and bourgeoisie capitalist. An elitist like me wouldn't survive a revolt. If there's no bread, let them eat Russian 🍰. Problem solved.
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Actually, your post is well researched and presented factually accurate. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the Trump Administration attempt to purchase Greenland.
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Presidential historians consistently rank FDR in the top three of the Greatest American Presidents, but his quote @ [ 8:40 ] would have definitely made Winston Churchill cringe. FDR was brilliant man, a highly effective politician, and my personal choice as the greatest president; but he could have been considered one of the Soviet Union's first and most influential "useful idiots."
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I say Switzerland and the Vatican would win.
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@ [ 7:19 ], I refuse to believe that our friendly and loveable neighbors to the north would ever do something like this in the 21st century. They would probably use the language, and then immediately say "sorry," but they wouldn't use the fictional landline redphone from the Oval Office.
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Rather than demonetizing this well-sourced, historically accurate, and mostly educational Cold War documentary, it should be made easily available and encouraged to counter misinformation motivated by actual anti-Semitism. I'm not for censorship of true and factually supported information or silencing political dissidents critical of the Israeli government, US/UK foreign policy in the Middle East, and Zionism by labeling them as "hateful bigots." Unlike like the laws barring governments in the West from restricting protected speech, the same doesn't apply to privately owned platforms like YouTube. I'm not sure how YouTube will place additional restrictions on the terms of service, but it does seem like the online community and dark corners of the internet have regressed back to the type of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and tropes that were common in pre-1945 Europe. Accurately portraying, documenting, and covering the 20th-century history of Judaism and Zionism is enough to show how we can learn from history and not repeat the mistakes of the past. Anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and racial hatred were enough for humanity to return to barbarism and commit war crimes and genocide that would have been unthinkable prior to WWI.
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The UK was briefly still a superpower after the war. The US was already the richest country and most powerful country since 1918. The biggest change in the global balance of power was with the Soviet Union. The US slowly evolved into a modern version of the British Empire on steroids.
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Your usage of grammar and punctuation is wonderful! Keep up the good work.
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@nickfifteen I'm not 100%, but I have a feeling the prisoner's cages inside Russian courtrooms have to be from the Soviet system. The Comrade courts seem reasonable, and would probably work in a court-system in the West.
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Are you talking about Trump or the Rosenbergs? The victim cards and witch hunt lies are getting old.
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It really depends on the strategy. After the war, the Red Army had the largest standing armed forces. Their geographic misfortune makes it somewhat reasonable to get them out of Western Europe, the Middle East/Central Asia, and Manchuria; but getting them to capitulate within their own borders usually doesn't turn out well for invaders. The Nato/UK strategy was to contain Soviet Russia and have them fight in buffer countries until the US could mobilize and bring enough troops to land on the European continent. Even if no nuclear weapons were used, neither side would gain much by fighting another world war.
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The legendary kissing unibrow @ 2:30.
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It's almost as close as troops in the DMZ and the West Berlin Checkpoint.
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Not really. Nuclear weapons were supposed to be a deterrent. The disadvantage the US had was not protecting North America, but trying to defend West Berlin and parts of Europe, while containing and surrounding the USSR. The Red Army was the larger than the US ground forces and had more territory. The US, like the British Empire before it, controlled the seas and had better technology.
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@elmersbalm5219 US is just a modern version of the British Empire, and except for the Orthodox Church and socialism, what's the difference between the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. Just change the names and still same Imperliasm.
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Nope. It's more like Russia, Belarus, Mainland China, and North Korea. US democracy isn't perfect, but it's definitely more transparent than the Soviet Union.
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