Warsaw Pact

And we'll get into that if you're willing to when we've got the time.

Nixon really kind of neutralized the strategic game of Warsaw Pact in Vietnam by affecting the Sino-Soviet split, wherein...

China and their proxy, the Khmer Rouge, came to be totally at odds with the Soviet Union and Hanoi, and an active proxy war between communist superpowers developed between the Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge.

I mean, whether the Khmer Rouge were evil or not, I mean, that's another issue, but...

These things kind of conspired to really turn public opinion... against what was underway.

Um, so yeah, it, I mean, I realized I was long winded and some of scattershot, but yes, it, there was a huge impact.

It was one part, the anti-war movement, which was in part, I mean, it was a fifth column regardless, but in part, it actually was funded and organized by, uh, agents of Warsaw Pact intelligence services.

Um, there was a hostile media apparatus, uh, Even those aspects of national media that weren't hostile, Johnson, who did a lot of incredibly stupid and kind of incomprehensible things, allowing media to truly be embedded in the field with combat elements in a war like Vietnam, I... with free fire zones, I mean, that's literally insane.

Détente was born of two things.

For those that don't know, détente was, it was a, it was an, it was an explicit and series of implicit agreements between the United States and Soviet Union Warsaw Pact to not engage in direct strategic competition.

Part of this owed to the fact that, uh, America was losing the Cold War militarily, not just in Vietnam, but on secondary battlefronts like Angola.

Um, the, uh, the Indo-Pakistan War was very much an attempt to, uh, owing to the, uh, owing to the then nascent Sino-Soviet split, um, the, the Soviet turn assisting the hedging China with, with India, you know, being a huge populous country.

It was literally listed as, as response menu.

It was countervalue and counter, uh, force assault against, uh, the Soviet Union.

All, uh, Warsaw Pact states where strategic nuclear forces are based, and the same for the People's Republic of China.

There's another menu option that was the same thing for China, but not the USSR and Warsaw Pact.

And we'll get into that if you're willing to when we've got the time.

Nixon really kind of neutralized the strategic game of Warsaw Pact in Vietnam by affecting the Sino-Soviet split, wherein...

China and their proxy, the Khmer Rouge, came to be totally at odds with the Soviet Union and Hanoi, and an active proxy war between communist superpowers developed, you know, between the Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge.

I mean, whether the Khmer Rouge were evil or not, I mean, that's another issue, but...

These things kind of conspired to really turn public opinion... against what was underway.

Um, so yeah, it, I mean, I realized I was long winded and some of scattershot, but yes, it, there was a huge impact.

It was one part, the anti-war movement, which was in part, I mean, it was a fifth column regardless, but in part, it actually was funded and organized by, uh, agents of Warsaw Pact intelligence services.

Um, there was a hostile media apparatus, uh, Even those aspects of national media that weren't hostile, Johnson, who did a lot of incredibly stupid and kind of incomprehensible things, allowing media to truly be embedded in the field with combat elements in a war like Vietnam, I... with free fire zones, I mean, that's literally insane.

For those that don't know, détente was...

It was a, it was an ex- it was an explicit and series of implicit agreements between the United States and Soviet Union Warsaw Pact to not engage in direct strategic competition.

Part of this owed to the fact that, uh, America was losing the Cold War militarily, not just in Vietnam, but on secondary battlefronts like Angola.

Um, the, uh, the Indo-Pakistan War was very much an attempt to, uh, owing to the, uh, owing to the then nascent Sino-Soviet split.

It was literally listed as, as response menu.

It was countervalue and counter, uh, force assault against, uh, the Soviet Union.

All, uh, Warsaw Pact states where strategic nuclear forces are based, and the same for the People's Republic of China.

There's another menu option that was the same thing for China, but not the USSR and Warsaw Pact.

you know, left-wing homegrown bodies, I saw the infiltration or the utility of the perspective of the Soviet Union trying to get inside these bodies to cause problems within the United Kingdom.

And if we wanted to look at it in another direction, we could say we were doing exactly the same with Solidarnosc in Poland or any other group you want to see anywhere else within what was the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact, because that was how the game was being played.

Okay.

Now, so therefore, if you've had enmity like that for 40, 50 years, surely you think to yourself that enmity still continues.

And the next 30 years would be a collision between the two.

Then the Soviet Union collapsed.

The Warsaw Pact dissolved.

The countries Moscow had treated as a buffer zone became independent states with their own memories and their own fears.

A few where you can remove a regime eventually either by strangling or like what Ronald Reagan did with breaking the Soviet Union economically and then the wall fell.

Within nine months, all the Eastern European Warsaw Pacts had been liberated within two years of Soviet Union.

Bill Clinton bombed for 77 days without congressional authority in Serbia.

Eventually, that government fell.

Really? It wasn't part of the Eastern Bloc or

the Warsaw Pact? Nope.

So, unlike other communist countries that rejected the U.S. Marshall Plan as per the Kremlin's orders, Yugoslavia requested American aid.

Okay, wasn't expecting that.

Did the Soviets send in their boat?

Nope.

Calls to leave the Warsaw Pact grew as it was seen as utterly useless.

As the people of Albania saw that they were basically on their own and surrounded by NATO, a piece of the East that happened to be in the West, calls for the leading communist regime to step down grew louder and louder.

Basically...

You have these Warsaw Pact countries that don't want their people to be sneaking away to watch capitalist movies.

So they try to make their versions of them to appeal to their public as a

way to