Ahh… What happened to the good old days of the Cold War, when rich, imperial America was doing battle with poor, agrarian Russia and China, and Iran and Venezuela were corrupt, fascist regimes serving the interests of American capital? These days, that seems so long, long ago!
There was time, 1945-1990, when America ruled the noncommunist world like a brutal gang leader, bullying its many poodle states with unlimited military and financial power, whipping and threatening them into obedience. The joke in postwar diplomatic circles still is that the United States doesn’t have any friends, just clients, and abused, browbeaten ones at that. My, oh my, how times have changed.
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