How has History helped us avoid WW3: Cold war
By: Andrei Tapalaga
Tags: Nuclear, War, Cold War, History, Ww3

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There have been many incidents that were called as a second world war in the 21st century and especially in the years of 2017–2018 where the tensions got quite high between the United States of Ameria, Russia and North Korea. However, the media can be quite deceiving and we will never truly know how high the tension actually was. We will never know if there was direct communication between the leaders as this could have a major impact to the tension that has been build up as well as emotions that are put into the decisions that are made by these powerful men. Never the less, I would like to make this into a series as there are many other wars that we have learned from that has, in many ways, helped us avoid another War. The reason as to why I start with the Cold war is because I think it has had the most significant outcome towards the understanding of possible consequences of a third World War. The first point which I think is obvious is the use of nuclear armament that would bring an imminent end to our world as we know it. Even the Great leaders during the Cold War have acknowledged that going through such a war would bring the end to this world as we know it. What we have to acknowledge here is that it is not a fight anymore or better yet a race between communism and capitalism but more of a parade to portray military power and flex that financial muscle as well as clench economic fist. It is more about roaring rather than slashing and actually attacking to protect something. Many live in denial thinking that we are safe and there are no wars happening around, not knowing the massive number of people that die daily in gunfire, many innocent and few that are just fighting for the riches. Another thing that we should mention is that the nations have woken up since the Cold War and by this I mean waking up to see that there is more to win if we unite (from an economic point of view) rather than fighting against one another. The Cold War just as many other wars are trying to divide nations as many powerful countries think that they are the best for certain reasons.

I would say that all the present leaders of powerful nations should take a look at the Cold War as they all have something to learn. Trump would get a good lesson from looking at the Wall of Berlin in order to understand that diving people will only bring the worst consequences. Putin has actually learned a lot, just as I have mentioned in my previous point, he sees how advantageous it can be to have diplomatic alliances with other nations in order to form trade unions for a more powerful economy. Even the present leader of North Korea has gotten a lot of sense in him by reuniting with South Korea after more than 60 years of being split up. The Iron curtain has much to teach us about the leaders of “yesterday” and how leadership should be shown by great and innovative ideas and not by flexing their power with threats of war. Containing other smaller nations and indoctrinating them with your ideology may have been a good strategy for the beginning of the Cold War but has Brought up the Start of the Forgotten War (I shall leave a link to an article I have written about this war as many people are not aware of it because it has been shadowed by the post effect of the Second World War and the start of the Cold War).

The statecraft of a nation matters very much. From an economic point of view, the US was able to dominate the Soviet Union at any time as the Soviets would just pump most of their economy into their army and most importantly nuclear weapons. Today we have kind of a different story as the Russians are more powerful from an economic point of view but not so powerful in the military sector as they used to be. So the tides have turned around in a way or another. What all this should come down to (as it did in the Cold War) is the count of nuclear weapons as, if a World War broke up there would be no soldier warfare, just nuclear warfare that will wipe most if not the whole population. Having this in mind the leaders will think many times before pressing the button.

Many say that what we need right now is a treaty to ban nuclear warfare however this is futile as if a war was to break up for whatever reason this treaty will not be respected by everyone. There will be more articles to this series looking at different wars and what we have learned from them in order to prevent future wars or World War 3.