HOW TO EXPLAIN THE WORLD TO THE MARTIANS – COLD WAR, 2017
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HOW TO EXPLAIN THE WORLD TO THE MARTIANS – Cold War
Chapter IV Cold War
From what we think to understand war plays a very big role in human activities. One of their leaders claimed that: “War is to the man what childbearing is to a women. I do not believe in perpetual peace.”1 The absurdity of this claim is hard to understand since childbearing is an activity that insures the continuation of the species and war is exactly the opposite, but there are many things in human behaviour that are hard to understand. As described in a movie: “They have a strange custom of dividing themselves in what they call countries whose boundaries they often dispute which causes them to go to war. The pattern seems to be that the winner of the war then goes into decline, while the loser prospers.”2
Very soon after what they call the Second World War in which some of these countries fought against the same enemy countries and called themselves allies, things suddenly changed and the former allies became the bitterest enemies, creating something they call The Cold War. “The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others). Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but a common timeframe is the period between 1947, the year the Truman Doctrine (a U.S. foreign policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism) was announced, and 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed…The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in 1945. The USSR consolidated its control over the states of the Eastern Bloc, while the United States began a strategy of global containment to challenge Soviet power, extending military and financial aid to the countries of Western Europe… 3 The main weapon that was used in Japan to end the II WW, with disastrous outcome, has become the means of threatening the other side throughout the Cold War. At the same time all of the countries involved where treating their citizens as totally naive, giving them a fake idea that there is possible survival from a nuclear war and ways to protect themselves. The citizens accepted such propaganda alongside with the propaganda that our weapons are bigger then theirs, thus more destructive, although, knowing what happened in Japan they should have realised that protection was a mare illusion. The strongest propaganda was being propelled in the first phase of the Cold War but seems to be reutilised today with text’s such as: “If a nuclear bomb is dropped on your city, here’s where you should run and hide”4