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[–] gnuthing@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm working on The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. There was this almost surreal moment reading it where it hit me that the cold war was possibly (probably?) entirely one sided. It's been very instuctive, I hadn't gotten such a good view of the CIA's machinations before reading this

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[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml [S] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

The cold war was basically America's fervent commitment to massacring anything that stands against capitalism and the American imperialism in general.

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[–] gnuthing@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Yes that send accurate to me now. Growing up it seemed like there was equal aggression, but it's clear that the USSR & China were just trying not to get invaded/bombed

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