"Nobody-No Country, No Person- wo' The Cold War." (George Kennan, 1992) Discuss.
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"Nobody-No Country, No Person- wo' The Cold War." (George Kennan, 1992) Discuss.
"Nobody-no country, no person- won' the Cold War." (George Kennan, 1992) Discuss.
For four decades, the Cold War dominated international relations, profoundly influenced the global market, and to some extent affected the life of almost everyone on the planet. However, in the year 1991, after an unprecedented chain of events, the Cold War came to an unexpected swift end. With the President of USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation, and the subsequent hauling down of the Soviet flag from atop the Kremlin, the final chapters of the Cold War came to a close. The division of the world into two camps, the terrifying and expensive nuclear arms race, the bloody conflicts in places like Korea and Vietnam, and the tensions and hatred that had been washed over the globe for nearly half a century had been relegated to the history books.
Indeed, the Cold War was a confrontation between military giants. A balance of terror preserved the world's peace. But the balance was struck at a ludicrously high and costly level; both the United States and the Soviet Union equipped themselves with thousands more nuclear missiles than they were needed for self-defense, or to deter others. The amount was able to destroy the earth hundred times over. Such excessive investment had dire repercussions on the societies of both the US and USSR and the world at large. Hence, this has given rise to the assertion that nobody won the Cold War. In other words, the statement indicates that all parties were losers in the Cold War. All parties have lost so much that even if there was any victory, it would not be enough to cover their losses.
Fundamentally, the Cold War was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, fueled on both sides that the ideology of the other side had to be destroyed. In this sense, it was a zero game in which co-existence was not possible- one side could win only at the expense of the other. The Soviet Union held...
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