4. Start of the Cold war was respectable. They tried to avoid it all.
But no - deposing democratic governments around the world in favor of dictators really didn't help the people in a country. As long as the "leftist leader" was a true democrat - they should have been left alone. They would have been voted out of office in time and people would have voted for what worked and learnt to trust governance in the process.
Think of all the reforms that were put off in places like Africa and South America. Just so that no redistribution of wealth would hurt American corporations. I'm sure some of it was real fear about soviet influence. But often it was not. It was about self-governance. Being independant.
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