There are many kinds of conflict in the world, from vain things to dangers that harm the integrity of the world and its people.
In this space, I will speak to you in a particular conflict, which did not receive half the attention of the press and the world than the 2 world wars, but had the potential to be 3 times more dangerous in terms of devastation.
I will tell you about the cold war:
The United States, the United Kingdom, and France were allies of the communist Soviet Union during World War II, but when the victory of the war became clear, new battle lines began to be drawn. What followed were 45 years of tension, marked by espionage and localized conflicts in areas on the periphery of the great powers, all carried out knowing full well what a nuclear catastrophe could bring.
The term "cold war" was first used by the Spanish writer Don Juan Manuel in the 14th century. In its modern acceptance it was coined by Bernard Baruch, adviser to President Roosevelt, who determined the term in a debate in 1947 and was popularized by editorialist Walter Lippmann.
This concept essentially designates the long and open rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and its allied partners after the Second World War. This conflict was the key to world international relations for almost half a century and was fought on the political, economic and propaganda fronts, but only to a very limited extent on the military front.
The reason for the "cold war" did not become "hot" was the appearance of the nuclear weapon. Before the bomb, The war was, as Clausewitz should have been, The continuation of politics by other means, After Hiroshima, The direct confrontation between the powers led to the general catastrophe.
The growing nuclear arsenals that the superpowers were accumulating prevented a direct war that no one had won, however, the US and the USSR and their allies used intimidation, propaganda, subversion, local war through interposed allies ...
Begun clearly and definitively in 1947, after a rapid process of transformation in the relations of the former allies, the Cold War controlled its zenith in 1948-1953. After various periods of detente and confrontation, Gorbachev's rise to power in the USSR triggered a process that culminated in the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. The Cold War was over.
There were too many details related to the conflict that the US and the USSR are leading ,strategically hidden by the allied nations in order to observe who would win and stay on the right side at the end of the road
That is why I gave myself the task of presenting the most important events of this conflict between nations, which unleashed terror in political relations in the face of the danger of an imminent thermonuclear war that you can find below, but before we gonna talk a little about the most intriguing event for me, the Cuban missile crisis, for that I will quote the statement of Marta Darby, who was 13 years old and whose parents had fled from Cuba to Miami after of Fidel Castro's revolution, recalls the 13 tense days during the nuclear confrontation.
"When the crisis broke out, we thought that the world was over. I don't know if other children were aware of what was happening, but in our house we talked about everything that was happening in Cuba. As Cuban refugees we knew what Fidel Castro was able to do. People were digging underground shelters to protect themselves from the bombs. There were conversations such as "maybe they are bombing New York first." I thought that would give us a little more time. When the news came that the crisis was over we had a party. That night we roasted a pig. My family realized at that moment that we would never return to Cuba "
Confused? Ok let me explain the matter
The Cold War had already spread to the US backyard. The escalation in US attempts to curb the activities of the communist regime in Cuba, coupled with the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, caused tensions to intensify and the Soviets to consider putting nuclear weapons in Cuba. This generated the prospect of an atomic war but both sides backed down. Still, the Castro regime remains in power, under the command of Raúl, Fidel's brother
As I said at the beginning of this presentation, this conflict highlighted the incompetence of nations in solving a world-wide conflict with diplomacy, the world being the main witness that nations will do whatever it is for their eternal and selfish pursuit of POWER AND CONTROL over the other nations. With this I say goodbye I hope you have been able to enjoy this bit of world history as much as I did, hoping you have taken a new wisdom and something with which to reflect on the decisions that the new generations will take and that will guide us in the coming years. Hoping to take this example from history and never make the same mistakes again. THANKS