GERMAN REACTS TO THE COLD WAR! - TommyKay Reacts to Cold War by Oversimplified
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- TommyKay Reacts to Oversimplified's video on the Cold War.
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Since you guys really liked the WW1 and the WW2 Oversimplified videos, we're gonna be doing some more reaction videos to all of this.
Today we're visiting a topic we haven't really touched on the TommyKay channel, the Cold War. They really should make a good mod about that for HOI4...
Also apparently Tommy doesn't know much about this time period so he is going to be learning a lot during this episode, shout outs to Oversimplified per usual for these amazing videos!
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”Leaders are a bad thing”. Tommy anarchist confirmed?
Anarchist Spain world conquest video confirmed
probably means that multiple people with equal power should run a country, and not a dictator or a president with a shit ton of power like in america or russia
@@dimmler7851 Well in a democracy people vote for that leader and can also fire him.
@@dimmler7851 And the american president doesn’t really have that much power if not supported by the senate and house which in total is 535 people.
@@Zack-rc3dtWow, like a senate isn't just a swarm of useless people which do nothing except for being "representatives TM" of states (local elites) when a president just "represents TM" elites which no one voted for.
I love when he talks he zooms to his face
I love u
@@Alvaro-zz3ls ew
i love when he talks..
@@TommyKay stuped tommkay so ungebildet
Yh and he talks all serious and shit, gets tense as hell
I’m always surprised by how little history Tommy knows
It's not that he knows too little, we just know too much, most people just learn history at school and stick with that.
Especially because he plays historical games
Yea I'm sure you've watched a thousand TH-cam videos
@@fntatn sad
to be fair the chats dumb also, USA was not the reason Germany lost ww1
USSR actually tried to joined NATO
the more you know
Proof?
im pretty sure it was after the Ussr fell
@@LuckyClovers72 no, 1954, feel free to verify
@@danielkron2513 yeah I looked it up you were right
@@LuckyClovers72 i thought CIA knew everything
People say tommy is dumb, but he just have the same knowledge of history as the average joe, I'm just happy he's learning new things and seeing he excited about it makes me excited even when it's about something I already knew.
There is nothing wrong with having the intellectual capabilities of an average joe, but it's great when they are willing to learn and improve.
In my experience, the only dumb people I've met are the ones who already know everything and refuse to learn anything new.
hoi4 players aren't exactly known for being historically literate
@@lubusbtchwhat?
@@irenaveksler1935 What I'm saying is an unwillingness to learn, and just assuming you know more the person you're talking to ma,as you an idiot.
Tommykay is learning so he can make his own hoi4
@@TommyKay He isn’t lying now is he.
@@TommyKay TK4؟
He’s planing to make the inspiration for a hoi5 game, set in a different era
7:52
Bro, Spain in all this events is like "don't mind me, just doing my own shit here"
Spanish 1: Hey, do you remember when we were the largest empire of our time, with more territories, economic power, culture and progress?
Spanish 2: Yes ... Where the hell do we screw it up !?
Napoleon: Hey do you remember me?
Spanish 1 and 2: ... Yes, that makes sense.
Someone tell him about switzerland
@@condedooku9750 *all of Europe scream and terror and run*
@@painvillegaming4119 Europe during the 16th century: I am not afraid of anything, but that thing ... scares me.
Spanish Empire: Hello there.
@@condedooku9750 best description of the Napoléontic wars
The people who really lost the Cold War were the peasants living in places like Vietnam, Indonesia, and Guatemala who got caught up in the machinations of big power geopolitics and were slaughtered for no reason
It includes Americans themselves though.
@@digitalpirate2183 Yeah the Americans who were drafted and didn't have anything to do with the rich Americans back home wanting the war
@@spiderduckpig And all the people that got fucked due to the constant change in the Cold War leading to variations in the economy and the Stock Market.
true this
*Carpet Bombing intensifies*
But seriously, over half the Bombings of the Vietnam War weren't even in Vietnam, but Laos and Cambodia. Always remember the thousands of innocents my nation bombed endlessly.
In ‘91 I think, my dad was in Berlin and saw the wall fall. He has a piece of the wall in his bedroom drawer and picture with him next to an German soldier. We are from the UK and he joined the army in ‘82.
Chad
November 1989
@@bobbabairight yeah I got my dates wrong but the story’s still true
16:22 My sophomore US history teacher had the audacity to say the nations of the eastern block all wanted communism and willing gave in to the Russians. This annoyed me and pissed off a classmate in class that had family that lived in those areas at the time. Pretty sure she was a sociology or multicultural teacher normally.
Berkeley I guess
Sounds about right for a sociology professor....
"He must have gotten millions of electoral votes."
Should someone tell him?
No dont
wat
@@TommyKay theres only 538votes and you need 270 to win
Hundreds of millions of Americans, but only 538 of those actually count. Go figure.
Funny to read some of the commects and find out people aren't actually pretending and take it all literally.
Tommy, my grandmother passed away and this video and yours in general are one of the few things that bring me some joy. I just wanted you to know how much I enjoy watching you
I know it’s been one year, but I’m sorry about your grandma.
@@LovelyDayEveryone Thank you! I honestly forgot I ever made this comment I'm doing better for the most part, but I still miss her often.
@@benjaminsmith8911 I’m glad you’re doing better.
@@benjaminsmith8911 it’s been two months, how are you doing? :]
@@LovelyDayEveryone I'm doing pretty good really. Its really nice of you to keep up, I never remember what I write for much time.
Tommy is such a political and historical smooth brain, holy shit
Quite infuriating right? 😂
@@rct3LP If he didn't play Hearts of Iron he'd be like "I didn't actually know there was a WW2!"
@@severus5180 And the lad is a german! How can that be?
@@severus5180 he even knows so little in many cases of German history that you learn in sxvool
@@nerobernardino88 probaly the school avoid to teach them history?
To Tommy's credit, his reactions are infinitely better than xQc's reactions. At least Tommy gives funny and occasionally intelligent commentary to the video, as opposed to just staring into space and asking whether cameras were a thing in WWI.
yeah xqcs reacitions are definitely funnier but tommy is good to watch if you want knowledge as well as entertainment
* r/place flashbacks *
@@lenuxx4014 xqc is an annoying manchild
My absolute favorite part of the Cold War is when the West Berlin parliament learned the wall was falling
Every member stood up and sang the German anthem together
Such a powerful moment
DDR 🚩
@@Nurembergwarcriminal You really believe the DDR was a good thing?
@@Lawnmower737what was the ddr
@@superk9letsplays419 The DDR was the Deutsche Demokratische Republik or in english the German Democratic Republic also known as East Germany.
Tommy, If you were planning on doing Finland Annexes soviet union, Then tomorrow would be the best day since tomorrow is Finland's independence Day
Happy Independence day!
lul unfortunately we are doing other stuff then
@@TommyKay oh well, big sad for the Finns 🇫🇮
@@TommyKay gay
he was planning to occupy it
The guy caught in the U2 spy plane refused to swallow cyanide even though he was supposed to, causing a crisis. He was called Gary Powers and actually inspired Austin Powers.
The U2 spy plane was a high-tech marvel of the 1960s. Capable of speeds in excess of 500 mph, the U2 was used by the US government to spy on the Soviets. Among its many uses, the U2 was used to fly over the Soviet Union, capturing aerial photographs for use as intelligence. One such mission involved the U2 spy plane flying over the Soviet city of Alma-Ata.
You should now Tommy, that the people in Leipzig were the people that demonstrated the most during the cold War. My teacher told me a story that the people would gather in the church and would walk together around the streets, this happened also before 1989. I am dutch btw:)
Leipzig pog
In belgium we still do that, on november we would mourn the deaths of 1914 and sing the belgian anthem all over Grimbergen.
24:53 Another similar story is that of stanislav petrov. there was a malfunction in the soviet missile detection system and he had a gut feeling that something was wrong and was the only one to not launch the missiles
channels like oversimplefied SHOULD be used in schools. how this man explained stuff is EZ to understand for many kids from a certain age.. many teachers could also learn from him.
when i watch oversimplefied i'm mostly like" really? they left that part out when i was having history class at school".
good stuff
“Leaders are a bad thing”
*ANArcHisM INTENSIFIES*
You shouldn't be proud of your political compass. Skirting real close to authoritarian.
@@danksinatra9146 I am not lol its a meme and an act of protest because TH-cam banned my main account.
On that day it was something like 3.75 right and 0.05 authoritarian, but that was because I was feeling frisky lol.
Also I don’t actually like the Political compass, (they say trump and Biden are as authoritarian as Hitler) but where they put me is close to accurate. (I am a bit more libertarian and a bit more to the right but close enough)
i dont know these meemes
@@danksinatra9146 That's a center-right pol compass. Authoritarianism is when the dot is high up.
@@TommyKay Anarchism is when theres no laws, no government, and no countries.
It's so amazing how visceral the fall of communism is the east is in eastern Europe, In the US and the UK it's just another event. I'm very pleased that Tommy K has bought light to this event and it's overall importance to a growing Europe!
Something that they don't really teach or talk about from the cold war was the fighting over the Uranium mines in the Congo. The UN sent Irish soldiers who had never seen battle and sent them into a boiling pot.
There's a good movie about one of the Irish Companies that got sent in on Netflix. Siege of Jadotville
Huh i never knew that and I'm Irish
The UN sent Irish soldiers who had never seen battle and sent them into a battle zone where thousands of lives were at risk. The soldiers, who were not equipped for the conditions they found themselves in, fought bravely but were greatly outnumbered. It wasn't long before the Congolese army caught up with the Irish soldiers, who had to be rescued by NATO. The soldiers were decorated for their bravery, but the mission showed that the Irish soldier was far from invincible.
@@trentonking764 lol was the Irish soldier ever considered invincible?
22:41 no tommy , all of this because a driver went the wrong way in 1914.
9:48 this man is literally saying what many Americans think and tommy loves America more then some Americans do
USA USA USA
Love USA from Cambodia 🇰🇭❤️
The Soviet spy was so good they had maps so detail it could rival satellite imagery where street length was even written down
President Johnson was once asked by reporters why he send more soldiers to Vietnam. He just pulled his pants down and told them: thats why
So much for competence 😅
No way he did that, ill need a link to support it now way a president did that
@@just_ducki3665 and i think nowadays you should be more open minded about the concept of a really weird president, the US still has a proud tradition of weird president fuckups 😁👍
@@teddyzaehmer May we mention the two fuck-ups where both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton lost the nuclear launch codes? If I had a nickel for every time a US President lost the nuclear launch codes, I would have two nickels. It ain't much but it's weird that it happened twice.
wat
@@teddyzaehmer L
Vasili Arkhipov is arguably one of the biggest Chad's in history. How we don't have a statutory holiday to celebrate this guy is beyond my understanding. Arguably we're all alive thanks to this fantastic individual.
One of the biggest chads? Arguably? No, he is without argument the biggest chad ever. He prevented nuclear war.
@@RepublicOfBrumystan. And holy shit is he a beautiful man.
"How did Germany lose WW1?"
•they had to put down rebellions on the occupied Russian territories the Soviets said they would give, thus weakening the other fronts, including the western front.
•the UK had did a naval blockade so Germany couldn't import food, thus causing a food crisis in the country
•the year he Soviet revolutionaries signed the peace treaty, that was the same year that the USA joined the war on the Aliies side.
7:14 as a southerner, I didn’t get taught about our rebuilding phase either
I think there is a reason for that...
Just to let you know, one of the reasons most people don't talk about the rebuilding of europe is because it was a bit of a controversy. They basically used the German POW's to rebuild all of Europe under very hard restrictions to their freedom. In Denmark, they had young german soldiers all the way down to 16 years old clean the beaches of mines with nothing but a knife at the beginning. This is why it's not talked about or really shown, because it could be used to show that the west were no better than the German/Russian/Japanese at the time.
Just my 2 cents.
If you can’t understand the anger of the Allies after WW2 you are as ignorant as those who say what the Allies did to those young adults was ok
As a bonus I can add that the US had gathered all of European gold reserves and to stall giving them back they just created the Marshall Plan giving in loans and gifts part of what they should have given back in gold.
@@Vrand0 I can understand and justify using German POWs to rebuild a former occupied country but it’s a much harder justification when using German child soldiers.
@@Vrand0 What do kids have to do with war? Let them be kids.
@@shooter5503 I’m not saying it was right, I’m just saying I can see the frustration of the Allies
You should watch Oversimplified: Hitler. I think it would be nice to see a German react to it.
He did watch it in a stream so it should be posted on here, i hope. But the video was also banned in germany so idk.
@Deadpoppin oh god
@Deadpoppin Yes, the 'German government' censors Hitler, but bans any questioning or denial of a certain state religion dogma of the 6 million, but downplays death tolls of Germans, especially at Dresden. Anyone can deny Christ, the Truth, according to Christianity (the religion which shaped Germany and the rest of Europe), in Germany and the rest of Europe, but not the new state religion of the 6 million men in small hats. Makes one wonder who is really in control now. It's clearly not German nationalists or those who love Christ above all and see Him as the ultimate truth. People can even say that German civilians and soldiers who had already surrendered deserved to die without being threated with a fine or prison time.
@@jwally1434 Germany banning their own history? That ain't good.
ye its coming after a hoi4 video or 2, dw
These videos are amazing, being a New Yorker and seeing a Germans perspective on history is awesome. Keep it up Tommy
I like how you talk as if new york was a country
@@Vitorruy1 your welcome 👍🏻
@@Vitorruy1he doesn't
Tommy, your descriptions of these past world leaders during your videos is legendary on its own. Lol
Fun Fact:
Some Soviet spies actually decided to settle in America thus creating the illusion of that there's still spieng even tho slot of them just lived there normal lives,You may have seen there's quite some Americans with Russian decent that's because their fathers or maybe grand fathers may be a Soviet spy working for the Soviet Government , some instances also occur in Countries that are in NATO ,EX. U.K,France,Belgium,Canada,Netherlands,Italy,Austria,West Germany,Denmark,Norway,Mexico,Some parts of the Caribbean Nations,Iceland ,Sweden ,Spain, and Portugal .(I may have forgotten all but yeah)
There's even cases that there's instances in the closest ally of the United States in Asia EX. The Philippines,India,South Korea,Japan,Taiwan(Republic of China) ,Southern Vietnam(during the Vietnam War),and Myanmar ,there's also cases of Soviet spies in Australia and New Zealand.
Indian was never an ally of USA btw during the cold war we were very pro soviet and even had a defensive pact with soviets
My grandparents actually have part of the Berlin Wall
That's rad
And so does my German teacher
u sure? maybe it was a rock from the street?
@@shadowfighter7709 The Berlin wall was pretty big. It's not hard at all to get a piece.
@@ShamanMcLamie But how can you prove it isn't just a piece of stone picked up from the street?
the stories about this are crazy, my dad literally sat on the wall that night.
Fun fact about Romania during the cold war: Although we were a satellite state like the rest of the eastern bloc, Romania had a fair bit more freedom than you'd normally expect. This was due to the fact that the USSR really didn't want to try it's hand at a full blown invasion of Romania with it's terrain being pretty good for defense already and Romania being somewhat known for the fact that we simply didn't give up (Mostly because we have a colossal and unspoken martyrdom boner) so romanian leaders during the cold war had more freedom to simply refuse soviet commands since the soviets couldn't just roll through them like other regions without either directly endangering their control over the region if they lost or being forced to win fairly phyrrically which they also didn't enjoy. This is also why Romania was able to do things like ignore the Soviet boycotting of the 1984 Los Angelas Olympics boycotting unlike other satellite states.
Tommy I'm impressed how you react about these important historical moments of your own country's history
15:05 there is a Street in Berlin called "Straße des 17. Juni" it goes through the Tiergarten , the Street is very famouse for the Germans with a great history ( Siegessäule , Brandenburger Tor )
“Why Merkel?” She’s ruled for 15 years Tommy that’s one less than Putin.
Yea everyone accusing Putin for dictator, but what about Merkel she is on power as much as Putin
@@KIKO00752It's a democracy where coalition of parties choose a prime minister, Germany at least honest in its elite oriented policy by not covering up the same thing by "my binary worse and worst election" so wings of elites could make their own business silently when simpletons actually think that they decide something except which face to see on TV and what formal BS to hear for 4 years.
@@KIKO00752 Her party could be voted out of power if the people wanted her to go. And if she was unpopular enough the party itself could even replace her with someone else. She's still in power because she's remained popular enough to do so. That's completely different from Putin's fake democracy where he just alternates between President and Prime Minister to get more terms, and he suppresses opposing parties to stay in power, including but not limited to banning them from elections.
she not going again next year
@@DovahFett Nah bro being a popular person is the same as being a dictator faking elections dont you know?
Johnson: *ends segregation*
Tommy’s chat: “What a racist”
He was tho
He was kind pressure by everyone else to do it
passing the civil rights act with an undersupporting senate like a massive racist
Danke für die tolle Unterhaltung Tommy 😉 Grüße aus Stuttgart und danke für deine tolle Arbeit
"America and us fought against each other then they built us up." Castle Ittler. World War 2 Nazis and Americans worked to kill some S.S troops
24:45 That was *part* of the Cuban Missile Crisis
I think it’s banned in Germany but there’s this movie called The Greatest Story Never Told. You should watch it
This beautiful TommyKay video absolutely made my Birthday.
Even in Italy when talking about the rebuilding fase, there are no sources, and in schools it's just like: "Yeah, everything was destroied and then they rebuit the country"
There is a Vasili Arkhipov statue in my home town in Texas.
7:20 : the Mercedes museum in Frankfurt has a good exhibition on the rebuilding after WW2. On one panel it said that engineers thought it would take decades for Mercedes to rebuild it's status as a car manufacturer but within 10 years they had a larger share of the market than before the war.
This channel turns out to be: Watch a Boomer reacting to history , revolutonary idea!
crazy i know
@@TommyKay Isn't he a millennial?
@@Balinux otherwise known as a "30 year old boomer"
Es gibt einen Film über das Nuklear U-boot: "Jagd auf Roter Oktober"(1990). Mit Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin und Sam Neill.
Ich glaube dieser Film ist uber ein anderes U-Boot. www.colorado.edu/polisci/last-sentry-true-story-inspired-hunt-red-october
Wut
@@sontalks The movie the Hunt for the Red October is about a different submarine.
ya, ich habe diesen filme gesehen, es ist ziemlich gute
When people complain Putin is ruling for too long and then realise Merkel has been ruling for 2 more years.....
The difference is that Putin has much more power cause almost everyone in the government are loyal to him
@@Enaysikey так что Путин не только дольше правит, но и более компетентен, лул
i dont think thats the same thing lul
Well merkel is allowing free democracy and won by democracy.
@@TommyKay well yes it is, Merkel has been ruling longer than putin. There's no going about it
Dunno about a movie but there is a documentary. " The man who saved the world " or something similar. Of course its when he's an older man, he comes to America at one point during the doc & goes to a missle site? and meets Kevin Costner (his favorite US actor)
Tommy has the best way of asking for subs on youtube. Hands down.
Gorbachev actually tried to save the soviet union. It's the Russians who wanted more power (and they got what they deserved)
Legend says it at least one brick in every building in Berlin has a Yugoslav name signed on it.
Tommy: Leaders are a bad thing
Anarcho Communists: *Allow us to Intruduce outselves*
wat
@@TommyKay wat
@@TommyKay there are versions of socialism/communism that are actually anti-authoritarian by nature, not all like ussr/china. You should check it out.
Maybe Anarchists would be able to introduce themselves more efficiently if they had any political power or relevance at any point in time or place in all of history besides a busta rhymes album
@@xyforever1546 SocDems are capitalists
28:07 the name of the movie was "the hunt for red october"
the movie about soviet guy is called "Secrets of the Dead"
React to History Matters too, very short videos with a lot of information
maybe 1 day yeah
They got the knowledge for the Abomb from a same kind of Operation Paperclip.
i love tommys reactions
I really enjoy watching Tommy’s reaction. He knows more about HOI4 than the actual Cold War. So much of what happened is a surprise to him.
Also. SOG soliders in the Vietnam secret war. had a 100% casualty rate and they were younger aged (young 20s) had teams of 4-12 men majority of them being indigenous troops. They had a kill ratio of 150:1.
Majority of them learned vietnamese. And had Hmong(mountain tribes) who were suppressed by the south and north Vietnam on their teams in sog. Super incredible men
1:10 The german bois did a lot of risky stuff, to name the more popular things:
-The Schliefen Plan
-The Telegram to Mexico
-Sending Lenin to russia
And some smaller stuff
10:54
Nah, russias spies failed to tell them that their radioactive trash is dangerous, thats why russia has many of the most dangerous lakes in the world xD
13:08 The korea war is also called „the forgotten war“
It’s no longer the forgotten war
I love these videos of Tommy reacting to stuff
Thoroughly bullied into subscribing from that message mid-video. Can't believe I haven't ran into this channel before. You're awesome.
Its funny how Tommy believes anything his chat tells him
Zhukov actually said "Tzar Alexendar made it all the way to Paris" I'm pretty sure, I may be mistaken though
this reaction series is so damn relaxing to watch
Ye
Tommy: Leaders are a bad thing
Me: Introduce a little anarchy
12:33 Anarchist Spain world conquest video confirmed
My grandfather served in the berlin airlift and Korea, died before I was born but heard lots of stories about it.
My grandfather was living in the the US during the cold war, he was an elite spy for the KGB, I often talk to him about it but he refuses to list some of the details even today, he often talked about how it all worked, and it seems very complicated and elaborate, from what I’ve gotten from his stories is that it was a very good spying network
Damn your reactions are quick, only about one and a half year late
does it matter tho
Who gives a shit
At least not 7 years
thank u sir
After all these years of me coming to Tommy, he’s finally coming to me ❤️
36:54 the timing on the dono lol
I love how Tommy hates both parties in the US. It's a smart choice, but hey, third party for 1.2%
Funny
Republicans are worse
13:30 yeah the joint chiefs (biggest bois in the armed forces) pretty much always advised the president on a nuclear strike during the Cold War. They even invented the Davy Crockett Which was a nuclear mortar that was mounting in the back of a Jeep
23:23
Yes If Trump were President at that time I would not have the choice to think about it.
Because I we're death.
A hoi4 player not knowing history is like a gamer liking women. It's just not right
"Stalin was an asshole dude".
O_o.....Yeah Id say so.
At the end when Tommy said to turn on notifications an subscribe, the music in the background was played by Danheim, which is a viking themed band.
"thats a crazy KD bro." Keep up the good work Tommy!
One thing to remember: Nobody won WWI, everything turned out shit for everyone - only Germany was off even worst.
Most of what is said in this video is incredibly biased the Paris quote that Stalin made was taken out of context. oversimplified down played a lot of the USSR did well and also the sacrifices it made and the role it had in WW2. I recommend seeing the video " the cold war from the Soviet POV" by viki1999 it bring light to a lot of thing about the cold war that aren't talked about as often
This guy calls out trump then insults liberals over Cuba. A true masterpiece of a man.
nice
Maybe little late but here is a story, my grandma and granddad used to live east Berlin, when my grandparents tried to flee the wall was already build, so after 5 years my grandparents with some other family members of me tried to flee again, now everyone from my family were soviets and it was a huge crime betrailing your country, but my family didn't cared so everyone distracted the guards, my grandma got over the wall without anything, my grandpa got over the wall and got shot by the soviet soldier, but he survived, my other family tho got executed for betrailing of the motherlands, after the soviet collapse and the fall of Berlin wall, my grandparents and my mother fleed to Belgium
Another American subscribed! Love your work.
That refugee of East Germany remind me of a current refugee problem.
10:39 they stole information from the US. The second country to build their own nuclear programme, independent front the US, was France. Britain had technology sharing so it doesn't count, and USSR stole the American plans. USA did not trust France enough to give it nukes because they couldn't agree to the circumstances under which they could use them so France built their own. America wanted to use them only in retaliation after receiving a nuclear strike while France threatened the USSR with nuclear annihilation in case they invaded. To be honest, I can understand both sides. America was never occupied in the war and neither was Britain, so it was much easier for them to feel safe from Russia, but if a war erupted, France wouldn't be in the same position. The Nazi occupation ruined the country and its industry and now Russia was threatening again. Also, if war erupted, the most likely scenario is that again France would be occupied while Britain and America not. Arguably, in this cases the Americans might have not attempted to liberate France again in fear of nuclear war so it would be game over from the French.
Rip Gorbachev
I know this an old video but love from America
the most funny thing about the bombs lost in spain, they never recovered them, they re still in the same place, and they still are radioactive and dangerous to near villages.
23:23 to be fair, trump has been really peaceful, regarding the military, throughout his administration. First president since jimmy Carter to enter US troops into new conflicts and actually helping resolve or cool others.
Bruh he almost started a war with Iran and North Korea. That guy is an idiot
@@mrbrainbob5320 how did he start a war with north Korea?
@@MrPabgon He didn't say that Trump started wars with them; he said that Trump ALMOST started wars with them. Trump is a hothead and he thinks that coming up with catchy insults means winning an argument. Remember how he antagonized Iran and North Korea multiple times? Directly insulting their leaders, threatening "fire and fury," and so on and so on?
All things considered Trump has been more peaceful than other recent presidents technically speaking, but that's largely because the wars which he inherited were already winding down. We should give Trump credit where he deserves it, but we should also call out his trashiness.
@@lucasharvey8990 Are you joking? That is straight BS, JFK also "ALMOST" started Wars with Soviets yet you leftists don't criticize him for the same "mistake". Insulting someone doesn't cause wars, only 5th grade childish minds would think insults are justifications for DOW. Be serious, no leftist national leader would start a WW3 because some angry orange man is saying mean stuff to him. Stalin was called much worse by his foreign oppositors and still did not DoW them because of that.
Plus, I agree with you in the later part, but can leftis even say Trump was the worst president ever considering what Democrats did in 2021 and are doing now in 2022.
Biden literally fucked up in Afghanistan and is now fucking up in Crimea with Russia and in Taiwan with China.
Biden is the worst leader USA had in many decades (aka 40% average approval rates) and Trump did MUCH better diplomacy than Reagan, Nixon, Bush and many other "normal consevatives" Leftists like to to compare.
Trump mediated an Israeli-Arabian Pact that most experts considered impossible for decades.
Trump was also the first American President to enter North Korea's capital and negotiate.
Trump also DID NOT start a new war, the first American President in 40 years to not start an Imperialist war in some third world country.
@@mrbrainbob5320 Nope, he was the most peaceful president to the third world in 40 years, Reagan, Nixon, Bush, Obama, Biden and etc, all of them were more imperialist and violent than Trump. I explained more in the comment above.
Although Trump is clearly not perfect, as Brazilian I prefer him over the average American President, I don't want to be blown up by a US Drone.
"imagine trump in that position in time, calling him and saying let's chill the fuck out" well actually.. He did, with North Korea and shit
All talk for his base, no sustainable agreement or anything.
Figures two tyrants would get along
@@Joseph_Drew_III "tyrants" also known as reasonable and non warmongering people
@@sparrowsbewertungen6930 Anyone saying Kim somehow isn’t a warmonger is completely delusional.
@@Joseph_Drew_III well did kim start any war?
But then , did the USA under Obama or Biden Start any war? ;)
Interesting fact: in Russia and many post-soviet countries many people blame Gorbachev for dissolution of Soviet Union and call him a traitor.
"Democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in." - Kennedy
39:19 The Sino-Soviet split started with Krushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956, and, in the early 1960s, both Krushchev and Mao accused each other of being "revisionists" who betrayed the revolution, and in 1969, they actually went to war with on another over border disputes. That was also the time of the Cultural Revolution in China, and by that time, the Soviet leadership was fully vilified in China as a pack of counterrevolutionaries. By the 1980s, after Mao had died and the "Gang of Four" had been deposed and blamed for the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, after USSR-aligned Vietnam had deposed Pol Pot's China-aligned regime in Cambodia ("The Khmer Rouge", officially "Democratic Kampuchea"), and the US and China were both supporting allied anti-Vietnamese rebel groups in Cambodia, China was actually more like an American ally than a Soviet ally, even supporting the "Mujahedeen" against the Soviet-backed communists in Afghanistan. Interestingly, though, the Soviets and Americans were allied in supporting Saddam Hussein's Iraq, while China apparently supported both sides and North Korea supported Iran only. That being said, the USA also kind of supported both sides, in that Ronald Reagan, personally, conspired with other high ranking US officials to sell weapons to Iran as part of a scheme to buy weapons to give to the Contras in Nicaragua, despite congress having voted to not aid the Contras, and which might also have had something to do with American hostages in Iran; however, this was not supported by congress, and thus hidden from them.