The Easiest Side The General Public Identifies In This War Is The Military Industrial Complex of The United States. The United States Was Set Up To Be A Direct Counter To The Communists, Limiting Their Expansion and Threatening Their Existence. The US Complex Protects The Western World.
The British Empire was the protector of the Free World over a century and a half ago. It's fall as world protector was taken over by America. America was the victor of back to back World Wars. The Second World War was the most revealing of the US Complex. In 1940 The Western World was in absolute Peril and faced its imminent demise. New advancements in science led to the splitting of Uranium and the realization that a powerful new weapon could be created. The threat the West faced was well, the Nazis were already on their way to developing an Atomic bomb, and the Communists wanted it too. The US Industrial Complex exposed itself, paid billions of dollars and got the Atomic bomb before the enemies of The West. After all, if the Nazis or Communists had gotten it first, the Western World would have been gone. When the war ended, America knew the Communists were killing their own citizens and went straight after them.
After the defeat of Hitler in 1945, America was devoutly anti communist. Americans hated the ideology, and everyone knew it was evil as they watched Stalin and Mao kill millions of their own citizens. America worked in unison together in their motivations. If you were a communist in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s in America you were considered a horrible person and disliked. Americans got behind the various wars they were involved in during this 35 year period as its purpose was intended for good for the planet. Rid the planet of communism, and form a singularity where nuclear disarmament could occur and global government could arise.
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Americans watched in horror as the Soviets enslaved millions of their own citizens in worker camps. Enemies of the Socialist State who were considered able bodied were thrown into camps where they worked night and day digging ditches and building bridges.
America did not trust the Soviets, even after World War 2 where they teamed up to defeat Germany. Before the war, there were mass executions of millions of people in Soviet Russia. The most famous of these was the Great Purge.
Millions of Russian citizens died in mass starvation, unable to feed themselves because the government had seized the means to food production.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev sit together to discuss issues at hand. This was at the height of the cold war. The cold war was the resulting global power structure that developed after World War 2. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, two powers amassed thousands of nuclear weapons and engaged in defacto war with each other while the entire world was held hostage. The United States and Soviet Union were so powerful that experts predicted that it was only a matter of time before a full nuclear shootout happened between the two.
Each side waged war with each other using various techniques and strategies.
At this time, America was immense and powerful, and the Soviets dreamed of conquering
JFK warned all of us that America and its goals were opposed by a vast global conspiracy involving Americas enemies, insiders and traitors who were working against it. JFK continued to warn that this conspiracy was tightly knit, operated in unison, with vast access to money and resources.
"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.
No President should fear public scrutinity of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition. And both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers-- I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.
Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed-- and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First (emphasized) Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution-- not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.
This means greater coverage and analysis of international news-- for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news as well as improved transmission. And it means, finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security...
"And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
April 27, 1961