, and the perception was that by using the term "evil," we would be provoking the soviet union. of you may see in the clip i showed from the tv series the americans where with the two characters are shocked to see reagan talking this way. and, yes, within the soviet ranks there was a great deal of shock about reagan. now, how much did reagan's policies have to do with the fall of the soviet union? well, that's quite a debate. some would argue that at most reagan's policies were peripheral. the soviet union collapsed because of internal reasons. others would say that the soviet union fell because reagan gave them a push. you decide. you read the evidence. i'm sure this will come up in a lot of your courses in international relations. important thing, again, is what he was using the speech for. this is a case of a presidential speech having multiple audiences. obviously, his meet obvious was the national association of evangelicals. more broadly it was religious people in the united states, evangelicals in general who he wanted to mobilize. but while the president speaks, the worl

but the old soviet union collapses. i mean, people would have thought you were crazy if you would have said such a thing. 1983, it was still a growing concern. people were fearful of the soviet union and the san sovietn was afraid of the united states. there were times where the cold war might have gotten that. we avoided that. if we hadn't avoided that, we wouldn't be here today. so reagan wanted to send a very clear message. now, again, he thought he could mobilize the evangelicals because soviet union is officially -- atheistic and wanted to drive that point home to them and engage them against the idea of moral equivalence and we will see in the clip that we are going to show right now. .. .. salvation of all those who live in the totalitarian darkness. the thought of knowing god but until i do, let us be aware will they preach the supremacy of the state it's magnificent over man with its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world. it was cs lewis in his unforgett

there are many things over the history of the soviet union. the soviet person folks have no personal property. basically matters only if you could give us some basic her oh, well, when you look good machine, you got a house may be a social, some problem. got an apartment very literally last night a lesson with your firm. but when you go to ripley, really, there were some, those things, those negative saying the mother feel guardlick resulted in the collapse of the soviet union. but it would be wrong too, but just painted all as black sandstone as human as the key. and there are people in russia who likes to do that, who like to just use this black paint and cover everything working with in this black paint. or, you know, sometimes i think i wish we could just keep them in the, in the, in the top of the black paint that they liked so much. i would just like to play like at your as a for the one melting falsely it collateral for them. what i did existed, i think it was a good thing about it because it enriches beetle, ear and richest nation and s

, at the end of the 1980s, the beginning of the collapse, really, of the soviet union. the time that i was there, there was also a kind of sense that there had been this massive collapse, and who was to blame for this collapse? and, you know, i saw that also in the united states firsthand. it just took some time for me to basically piece it all together. you know, so it's the observation in my own life about how my family were downwardly mobile, how i personally became upwardly mobile and moved out of this predicament, and the lessons that i learned along the way that i wanted to convey so that, you know, i'd help give other people a bit of perspective on how we got to this point in the united states where we elected what is, you know, without a doubt, a populist president in the fo of donald trump in 2016. >> you write about being slurred for your russia expertise in the trump white house, but, in fact, you are an expert in russia. you wrote a book about vladimir putin, entitled "mr. putin: operative in the emlin," and your expertise in russia began at an early age as a student

you are, in fact, the penitent list was why over 70 percent voted to preserve the soviet union, not long before is the solution. many of the former soviet republics regretted the decision as well, but but he is now we have to accept what's happened until we accepted the existing reality of the world. as for the soviet individual, the soviet human i know requirements it in the old man of a news social formation. i think i've spoken at length about black school was a should any well this we should this year our meter in special for the 1st time we have a noble prize winner praise lord middle murat and sir mister murat of the 4 is yours. do this wish you a good day. thank you mister president. cooper further gather to schedule change, but i would like to say that the we've split the money for sheba formed crew cobra . and i would like to thank them a circle of a good foundation. and i hope that you have our participation. if not, oh, will raise awareness of problems of children. leadership and the homeless people over eating is off and turn. this foundation is really to help people. it's a

i don't want to become partisan, that the soviet union would have fallen and then to waste time and money the europeans are european they just clung to us for those decades because we are protecting them against the soviets. is just disappointing. >> i share a lot of concerns and opinions trying to stand up for trans-atlantic values and of course it even goes beyond those values of european and american people so the research is that history but then with soviet journey. that they need to learn those lessons because they did talk about american policy things i want to highlight to pick up on general mcmaster how important the expansion was in all the pressures after world war ii to retreat again beyond the shores there was peace dividend but once we saw the emerging threat of soviet communism so building up the military of soviet aggression but to strengthen his diplomacy as of the world most military. see you can use with the diplomatic solution but also to the point of the shared values of the united states is leading the way for the atlantic on —- atlantis surgical back to washington m

the best republicans are former democrats. >> larry could i mention of the battle against the soviet union and all of its attacks on the human soul materially as well as in the heart, was facilitated because of ragan's ability to work with the union movement with the labor. labor solidarity, and with pope john paul ii, lane kirkland was extremely helpful. i think the fact that reagan had such credibility, workers really knew he was on their side. he understood how american principles really helped give opportunity to the little guy and what a message that would be. >> i was staffing for the social security commission in the early 80s and kirkland was on that. those old union guys are anti-communist. that game has changed the left is so awful now the left hates america. in those days the union guys loved america they wanted to stand up for their members. they did not collect dues in order to provide critical race theory in junior high school. they loved this country they do not going to talk about systemic racism in america is always wrong. it was a very big difference. >> by the way larry

the best republicans are former democrats. >> can we just mention that the battle against the soviet unions and all of its attacks on the human pool and materially was facilitated because of reagan's ability to work with the union movement with labor and labor÷u solidarity, and with pope john but lane kirkland was extremely helpful but the fact that reagan had such credibility that workers knew he was on their side and he uerstood how american principles really helped give opportunity to look little guy and what a message that would be. >> kirkland i got him to know what bit i was staffing for the socialist community, kirkland was anti-communist the old union are anti-communist and that game has changed the left is so awful that hate america in those days the union guys loved america they just wanted to stand up for their members and they do not collect dues in order to provide critical race theory in junior high school, they love this country and they didn't go around talking about systemic racism in america is always wrong so it's a very big difference. >> by the way in terms of ge and ho

gerry: we won the cold war against the soviet union.large part, in the end, the economic system was vastly superior. we also developed great military capability. the soviet union turned out to be the ivory coast of missiles. china is a different proposition china is not the soviet union. technologically more advanced. what is the real danger to the united states now and this potential, long-term potential conflict? >> china poses a fundamentally comprehensive threat to the united states and to the west. it is part of every supply chain. we saw this with covid. they make the little bottles that vaccines come in. you do not worry about little bottles, so what, until you are wondering how will i get millions and millions of doses of vaccine out to the public. they are the ones who make much of the starting material for microchips, as well as steel for rebar and et cetera. china poses a military threat, hypersonic weapons and newly discovered fields in western china. but, it also plays a key role in our account to be and european and japane

so the soviet union would have fallen anyway and we waste a lot of time and money and the europeans areuropean, they just clung to us for those decades because we were protecting them against the soviets and it was all just disappointing. will? >> i share a lot of concerns and jamie is along the lines of trying to stand up for transatlantic values and maintain the atlantic alliance and it goes beyond leader to leader relations but it's about the shared values and commitments with korean and american people and one of the research for that is the history of working together first to defeat nazi tyranny and defeat soviet tyranny but each generation in some way needs to relearn those lessons. you did talk about american policy in europe and a few quick things i want to highlight, this is so important about military buildup and expansion looking on the us to demobilize behind our shores, there was a piece of dividend we had but once we see the emerging threats of soviet communism they have to re-mobilize so building up that military which helps prevent further soviet aggression and this is

and 2nd, even the soviet union was a stable liver row of western european energy. so we have experiences with being dependent from rational energy exports and boost experience that are completely very good. but so how was it different now? how is it different now mr. crime? as you say, the soviet union was a reliable partner in sending gas into your for basically for roughly half a century, there was no problem with russian gas. all of a sudden, right now, russian gas, bad because of geopolitics. there was never a risk. the western europe could side with the soviet union in global politics, but it is a real opportunity to side russia in future global politics. so america wants to keep from europe as is, as it's junior partner, without any own political, a possibility to have its own, rural ended in the future world. and that is to change. the soviet union was unattractive in every saying except guess russia is attractive in many aspects. and that is why we have now and even a hot cold war against russia. then we have seen the soviet union back in the seventy's and

reviewers for over 30 or maybe even over 40, remember that ukraine and georgia were parts of the soviet unionev and get alecia are as familiar to russians of my generation as st. petersburg or moscow. so it was taken very badly in russia. i think mr. lavrov and , putin, they weighed all the options. basically nato not only expelled , eight russian bitcoins but they also cut the number of people that we can have in brussels. the maximum is just 10 people. it used to be 30 when nato-russia council was founded more than 20 years ago. so russia decided that just having that 10 people doesn't make sense. so we better express our dissatisfaction. we better send a message of protest as mr. lavrov, our foreign minister, said yesterday. hashem: so, theresa, this isn't just about a tit-for-tat or the russians b being angry about abt the decisions made by nato recently, demetri says this is about anxiety of the u.s.'s perceived expansion further towards the border of russia. guest: i think this is part of a long trajectory downwards. this is probably the lowest point. we saw this beginning in 2014 with

with china, the president needs to view china the way that reagan and pope john paul viewed the soviet union. we're at acrossroads with

countries decided to reduce tact cam nuclear weapons by about 15,000 between them and after the soviet unionp, i came to the pentagon to help with the initiative to get rid of more of the nuclear weapons in the former soviet union through a program that congress had told the defense department to september aside $400 impact each year and to put it into helping the now independent statements of the soviet union to get ripped of their weapons of mass destruction, reallily nuclear weapons. colin powell was there and he completely foul. ed what we were doing. he had been part of that major arms carom niche active in placement 1991 and now implementing if nunn-lukeer program. he and his statue were there to support everything that we were doing, even though we were taking away familiars from over programs in order to do it. assigning higher military officials to work with it, helping us make contact with the militarys in those other countries. russia, ukraine, bell rule, kazakhstan. as a military man he supported all the way reducing and eliminating nuclear weaponles and was incredibly helpful to

many others, the timelines of the making of the atomic bombs in both the united states and the soviet union. all in the pursuit of putting together the pieces of the life of a soviet military intelligence officer who, as a u.s. army corporal, had full security clearance in america's top secret world war ii project to build the first atomic bomb. the when and the when were doable. the long must-do list of challenges, i was confident about that. but for the book to be a true biography, the why, the what, and the how had to be uncovered. indeed, it's the biography of a spy, born and raised in iowa and known for charming everyone he met. he loved baseball, was a skilled shortstop, and could reel off the history and stats of every big league pitcher. i played bridge. he was a fan of walt whitman and longfellow. he could recite them, actually, poems from several american poets, and was by several accounts quite the ladies' man. he obviously blended well into the american culture. all the while, he was sending atomic secrets to moscow to help speed up the creation of their own atomic bomb. among t

and you know, i was correspondent in moscow at, as the soviet union collapsed. and i reported on that. and for me, the russia of to day post soviet russia is something completely different from the soviet union. but i'm not sure that that experience and more to my view of that is shared by a lot of people who deal with russia. and i think until that, that way of looking at russia has gone. it's going to be very difficult to, to, to get a completely new start. and the other that the other aspect that i would say is that there are that there are points on which the genuine differences between russia and, and the west. and one of those has been the expansion of your, of nato and the european union. if i look at that from the western perspective than i say, you know this, this is a very good thing. these countries wanted to join. they have a better life than they ever had in the warsaw pact or in the old soviet union. on the other hand, i look at it from the perspective of moscow, and i would see that as they see, the borders of nato have got closer and closer to ru

and it does remind some folks of the soviet union. and i, i think back to our friend dmitri orloff, who wrote maybe 1516 years ago now, an essay called the collapse gap. which basically foretold that the u. s. would follow the soviet union down into a collapse pretty much for the same reason over militarization. and with america is 6 or $700.00 military basis around the world having just lost 2 african in afghanistan and leaving $85000000000.00 worth of weapons behind. it seems like he's got a point. is a u. s. collapsing neck? yes, i think it's undeniable. the u. s. is collapsing on yet. look at every metric. where is it not collapsing? it's collapsing, geopolitically it's collapsing economically. it's collapsed. collapsing, culture leads collapsing socially in any kind of metric you look at and it's going in the wrong direction. clearly, you know, commodity prices are storing. usually this is good for developing nations like our tina, which are big commodity exporters. what do you say in there? yeah, you know, look, it's a tug of wa

and it does remind some folks of the soviet union. and i, i think back to our friend dmitri orloff, who wrote maybe 1516 years ago now, an essay called the collapse gap. which basically foretold that the u. s. would follow the soviet union down into a collapse pretty much for the same reason over militarization. and with americans, 6 or $700.00 military basis around the world having just lost 2 african in afghan, leaving $85000000000.00 worth of weapons behind. it seems like he's got a point. is the u. s. collapsing neck? yes, i think it's undeniable. the us is collapsing on yet. look at every metric. where is it not collapsing? it's collapsing, geopolitically it's collapsing economically. it's collapsed collapsing. culturally it's collapsing socially in any kind of metric you look at and it's going in the wrong direction. clearly, you know, commodity prices are soaring. usually this is good for developing nations like our tina, which are big commodity exporters. what do you say in there? yeah, you know, look, it's a tug of war betwee

it's the soviet union that is gone. it's china that's trying to become a world power, not by invading anybody but by selling to us. they got pretty good at it. imagine where we are now compared to 30 years ago where china had been selling his stuff in the money we are paying them, they then loan us to buy more stuff. [laughter] >> this is our economic problem, ladies and gentlemen stop i am optimistic and americans have to be. it's what fuels us at, it what makes us americans. >>>> i didn't know until reading the book and the subject of confidence is the movie "the hustler." >> for those of you were not bold enough to remember, it's a movie about a pool hall. paul newman goes by the name of fast eddie and he is determined to be the champion and he thinks he's the best in the world and he goes into this pool hall in new york and he's going to play minnesota that's played by jackie gleason. the game starts and fats is good. but minnesota fats has this manager for financer who is sitting in a chair, george see scott, watch

nobody at that time wanted to go to the soviet union. and when i came back home, communism was over in hungary. it was a completely new and strange world. all to be withdrawal for important. everybody in hungary had great expectations about democracy and about changing to capitalism. and that, that time hungary was in the forefront of the changes the hungarian society created legislation. model type part is a new parliament elected by the people and old all the institutions of demo were billed when the old bon government came to power. in my view it margaret, a sharp change. i would say it is much closer to dictatorship. where are the exclusive only ideology is to retain power at whatever cost the you want to get a good deal. yeah. any of you know when you answer like lindsay and he sent horn up for an auto new load? i spell out your buffet as he got his asha oz and i don't actually ever see frequency. i've got as if they get kind of i don't thing that we all are bound to be voted out of power. no prices is high enough. just he wants to

it's the soviet union that is gone. it's china that's trying to become a world power, not by invading anybody but by selling to us. they got pretty good at it. imagine where we are now compared to 30 years ago where china had been selling his stuff in the money we are paying them, they then loan us to buy more stuff. [laughter] >> this is our economic problem, ladies and gentlemen stop i am optimistic and americans have to be. it's what fuels us at, it what makes us americans. >>>> i didn't know until reading the book and the subject of confidence is the movie "the hustler." >> for those of you were not bold enough to remember, it's a movie about a pool hall. paul newman goes by the name of fast eddie and he is determined to be the champion and he thinks he's the best in the world and he goes into this pool hall in new york and he's going to play minnesota that's played by jackie gleason. the game starts and fats is good. but minnesota fats has this manager for financer who is sitting in a chair, george see scott, watch

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the war the soviet union fought lasted for a decade. from 1979101989. e there as the ussr left see some differences between the soviet and american withdrawals. our special correspondent in moscow reports. >> withdrawals from afghanistan go throughout history. for the u.s., it was the soviets who left in 1989 10 years after they invaded on christmas eve, 1979. officially ty had been invited by the socialist afghan government to help fight them lucia how dean and set up a 16th republic of the soviet union. partly because soviet officials worried afghanistan's new leaders would start to forge closer ties with the unit states. after a bloody decade in heavy it soviet -- and heavy soviet losses, the soviets withdrew. these paintings are on display at russia's union of afghan veterans. embers work to help fighters of moscow's old war and pass on what they have learned to young russians. >> you see the words glory to the soldiers of the fatherland, glory to the sounds of the motherland? this is how we left. today the americans just left -- just ran away and th

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s. missouri representing the soviet union general did of jenco also signed the surrender document aboard the u. s. s. missouri general macarthur and admiral nimitz signed on behalf of the usa. the tokyo tribunal soon follows the trial of japanese war criminals. america behaved as if it owned the courtroom. after all, japan was in its hands. he hoa, america good unless she hi, norma, done yet. that that a good there. amaica ganga donna summer. nealon de la cruz. okay. i made a goga dba nissan. gyla. ah ah. the took you tribunal began on may the 3rd 1946. by this time, churchill had already delivered his sinew as of peace speech that heralded the cold war and the tokyo tribunal became an arena, revealed confrontation between the u. s. great britain and the u. s. s. l u s. representatives refused to review the topic of unit 731, and it detachments despite soviet demands. the whereabouts of the unit 731 leaders are unknown to us. there are no grounds for charging the unit with wall crimes and cold war. and there was a stream of documents and data by unit 731 that went to 2 military bases in

named svetlana ogorodnikov, who along with her husband had emigrated to the united states from the soviet unione couple was unhappy in their new country and they wanted to go back, but the factors were considered traitors by soviet officials. in order to return, they needed to earn their passage home. miller was svetlana's ticket back, svetlana was gregarious, flirtatious, and attractive, and miller made an easy mark. when we can as efficiently sanction contacts, documented and reported, soon became illicit meetings in which svetlana had sex with miller, first in his car, later at motels. she also gave him money and gifts. in return he smuggle classified national security information out of the fbi, and provided it to svetlana for her kgb handily. at some point miller's colleagues that the fbi discovered that he had been meeting with svetlana and not reporting it. suspicious, they started telling him shortly before mueller was to fly to vienna to meet with a general and russia 's military intelligence unit, gru, as a counter intelligence -- he was being followed by his fellow agents. before he

they are concerned about the vulnerability of what used to be the soviet union, central asia.entral asia remains stable. >>aren't you worried the taliban will see this worry about researching terrorism as a potential leverage for their power? they can use that with countries like russia, even with the united states to get what they want. that is the only real power that have about half. -- the taliban have. >>the taliban have an archenemy in the group isis-k. i.s. k in afghanistan, as you saw in the fast -- past few days there were several attacks that took a lot of lives in northern afghanistan and southern afghanistan. the taliban since 2015 have been fighting i.s. k. both sides have lost a lot of people in this war. that is going to continue, in my opinion. whether the taliban wants to use this as leverage or not, it depends very much on whether they think that they can get something out of the others. the others -- what is -- that is what they are looking for. the taliban would like access to the money that has been frozen. the international community is using that leverag

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after all, it was only 16 years from the fall of saigon to the fall of the soviet union. when president reagan predicted the soviet collapse, it appeared unimaginable. nine years later, it happened. freedom and democracy will also lead chinese communism and the criminal regime in iran on the ash heap of history. [applause] ms. haley: and when i look to the american future, i see what others don't see. and i marvel at it. i see a country proud of its principles and its place in the world. a free people at peace with each other and protecting our values. a culture shining as a beacon for all to see. today that vision seems impossible, but it is not just my vision. it is what abraham lincoln meant when he called for a new birth of freedom during another terrible time in our nation. it is what ronald reagan had in mind when he called us the last best hope of earth, the last best hope of man on earth in -- in another time of great division in our country. like them, we are called to bring out the best of our country and summoned the best -- and like them, i know we will succee

ultimately, of course, caused the collapse of the society soviet. -- soviet union. this is what happens anywhere when governments try to control what should be left to the free men and women in terms of allocating resources, government-run economies like the very one that professor omarova is proposing, they don't work. and let me express a point that i made before about professor omarova. the point that she was born and raised in the soviet union has nothing to do with whether the government should confirm her to run a major financial part of the government. there are many who had the misfortune of growing up behind the iron curtain. that has nothing to do with whether she's qualified for the job. it's her advocacy for the policies that in a disturbing way that resemble those of the soviet union, that should form our judgment about whether this person should be the chief regulator of the nation's federally chartered banks. professor omarova would like to argue that her central planned economy will be different. that is always the case, this time we'll get socialism

in 1983, the soviet union misread u.s. intent. that is clear now.ocuments have been declassified even knowing that, it was evident that there was such international tension. when i went off to study russian, the encouragement of relatives and my family, thinking i might become an interpreter, maybe at one point i might be able to help in some way with negotiations. that was the atmosphere. we were going to blow ourselves up. i entered later into the administration, against the backdrop of russian reactions, a sophisticated operation that launched to turn our electoral system, that presidential campaign in 2016 on its head. i came out the other side of the time in the ministration and the government at the highest level seeing everything much more concerned about the u.s. in russia in the 1990's, there was a similar polarization. the collapse of the soviet union led to millions losing jobs overnight with very little prospect of a life ahead, because the whole state had collapsed. at the end of the decade of crisis, economic and political, vladimir pu

general mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, compared the test to the soviet union's "sputnik" launch during the cold war. i don't know if it's quite a "sputnik" moment, but i think it's very close to that. >> general milley should dust off his history books. the chinese trip has nothing in common with "sputnik" and saying so feeds a dangerous paranoia growing in washington these days. to recall, the soviet union launched "sputnik," the first manmade satellite to orbit the plan in 1957. both the u.s. and ussr had been planning to launch in face for years and the fact moscow got there first was a huge shot no americans. coming in the wake of multiple, powerful nuclear tests, soviet powers, the united states acknowledged, was ahead. hypersonic missiles, on the other hand, are very old news. hypersonic missiles, on the other hand, are very old news. a hypersonic missile travels at five times the speed of sound. starting in 1959, the united states and the soviet union deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles that traveled around 20 times the speed of sound. even germany