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US foreign policy for the second half of the 20th century was basically: "Communism is real bad and causing millions of people to suffer and die, so let's go st
by unnamed76ri 3y ago
US foreign policy for the second half of the 20th century was basically: "Communism is real bad and causing millions of people to suffer and die, so let's go start a war that will cause millions of people to suffer and die. Except now a lot of those people get to be our people! Hurray!"
Left alone, communism eventually fails in almost every case. China being the main exception but that's because we pump a half a trillion dollars into their economy every year buying cheap goods.
- graphe 3y agoCold war was detente, and they were strangely fighting the fear of nuclear armament from these communists too.
- FredPret 3y agoChina has had a weird mix of free market and political totalitarianism since they liberalized in 1990. Before that their economy was a complete non-event. All of their rapid growth really started in the mid-90’s, and the West started paying attention even later.