Summary and Reflection

The article contains a piece of level because in a modal value, it talks nearly how the Cold contend started found on the point of view of an editor named Charles L. Mee.As can be quick ascertained from the title, the author is merely presenting his educated opinion pertaining to the contribution of divergent countries like the United States, Russia, Germany and other countries , their hidden conflict, how they acted and reacted, and how they each played their exercise in the beginning and ending of the Cold warfare.The author also talk overed somewhat of the so-c aloneed behind -the-scenes strategies that came into play which involved famous political figures, and he is leaning to the possibility that what these authorities did may come mitigated or aggravated the circumstances that further ignited the beginning of the Cold War (Mee, 2009).The author opens the article by painting a picture of both scenarios The first one focuses on how President Truman expressed his uncens ored sentiments about the Russians to Foreign Minister Molotov who only arrived to pay his respects to the corpse of President Roosevelt, and the second one talks about how Winston Churchill kept chiliad of captured German troops and prepare them against Russia (Mee, 2009).In both of these pictures, the author is trying to lucubrate sarcastic all toldy that the behavior of these people was a sure fire way to start a conflict. It is not unknown to many that the Cold War began after the World War II. Sensitivity should be exercised at all cost during these trying times when talking about matter applicable to national security and diplomatic relations and the author is trying to articulate that these political figures showed the exact opposite of being sensitive.The author goes on to discuss how the different countries picked the strategy that would work best for their country economic- and military- wise, and they also picked on the countries which they would deem as allies.The Co ld War resulted in a fighting between the strongest of countries, the east against the west. This view of the author is strengthen when he mentions that the monumental Three does not care about what happens to other countries as abundant as they did their part right and make sure that they can have everything going in their direction.He further extends his argument when he said that these contenders were dependable using the weak ones as pawns because during these times, the power is up for grabs and they need all the help they can get. The Big Three that the author is referring to are Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill (Mee, 2009).