The Iron Curtain, combined with the fear of a resurgent Germany in the post WWII landscape, is what enabled that to happen. I've heard that in parts of Europe, they say that the purpose of NATO is threefold. To keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.
Dark does not mean deep.
We're about a single 500 point drop in the Dow Jones from the stock market being worse than when Trump took office.
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The Barr DOJ trying to sneak this by right now.Donald Trump’s department of justice is seeking to drop charges against two Russian firms indicted by Robert Mueller, amid concerns they are seeking to exploit the process to obtain sensitive information, it has been reported.
The firms, Concord Management and Concord Consulting, were among 13 Russians and three entities charged by the special prosecutor in February 2018, claiming they tried to subvert the 2016 election and to support the Trump campaign.
“The indictment alleges that the Russian conspirators want to promote discord in the United States and undermine public confidence in democracy,” Rod Rosenstein, then deputy attorney general, told reporters. “We must not allow them to succeed.”
Now, the New York Times has reported prosecutors are looking to drop the charges because they believe the firms are seeking to exploit the process.
Unlike the other firms charged, Concord fought the charges in court, the newspaper said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mueller-r...235300098.html
Now watching my Bernie-follows on Twitter declare 'no way Washington voted for Biden! RIGGED!'.
And all I can do is shake my head.
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It's easy to extrapolate something similar to just about everywhere we have bases except for the Middle East. Japan and South Korea are both part of the policy of Containment, in addition to it extending the duration of the stay in the Phillipines (although we initially ended up there due to taking over from Spain after that war). I'd even say that being in Japan was similar to the 'keep them down' mentality shown towards Germany (and in the first few decades after WWII it's likely much of the rest of the world was OK with that).
That isn't to say the US didn't become a hegemonic empire, because we pretty much did.
Dark does not mean deep.
We built up our empire effectively covering the retreat of the British and French from colonies that they could no longer afford to occupy after WWII devastated their economies. The people in all of these areas of course wanted independence and self-determination, and in desperation turned to the natural enemy of their former colonial masters who promised them support, funding, and weapons if they would adopt a veneer of socialism to further the Soviets' own foreign policy goals. We of course interpreted this to mean some kind of grand international communist conspiracy that must be stopped at all costs, which meant propping up right wing despots in every part of the world that had NO popular support and were MUCH worse than their Soviet-backed counterparts, but because we managed to bankrupt the Soviets with a futile arms race, we declared ourselves the good guys all along. That doesn't mean any of this nonsense was ever true, though.