Quotes About Cold War

in the larger Trump view, it was during the cold war that time and circumstance gave the United States its greatest global advantage. That was when America was great.

In practice, the new foreign policy, an effective Trump doctrine, was to reduce the board to three elements: powers we can work with, powers we cannot work with, and those without enough power whom we can functionally disregard or sacrifice. It was cold war stuff. And, indeed, in the larger Trump view, it was during the cold war that time and circumstance gave the United States its greatest global advantage. That was when America was great.

The mutual trust that emerged with the end of the Cold War was severely shaken a few years later by NATO's decision to expand to the east. Russia had no option but to draw its own conclusions from that.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

During the Cold War, widespread alcoholism was always seen in the West as evidence that life under Communism was so dismal that Russians needed large quantities of vodka to get through the day. Under capitalism, however, Russians drinks more than twice as much alcohol as they used to - and they are reaching for harder painkillers as well.

After the Cold War, most scientists were relieved to be freed of the burdens of secrecy and misrepresentation, but Seitz, Singer, and Nierenberg continued to act as if the Cold War had not ended.

Recordemos que el planeta estaba sumido en plena Guerra Fría y la batalla entre el mundo libre y el totalitarismo marxista abarcaba obviamente el continente americano, en donde el país trasandino por su posicionamiento geopolítico era una de las prioridades de la Unión Soviética.

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

There's plenty of repressive communist regimes left over from the cold war, but there's plenty out there that don't really regulate their enterprise.

What was Ted Kennedy up to in May 1983 with that offer to Yuri Andropov via the KGB?