The main subject of this work is US anti-communism during the Cold war, how it was (ab)used to justify US intervention across the world after the 1960s and how, after the fall of the Soviet Union and a short disorientating period in the nineties, it was replaced by anti-terrorism as the main excuse for the meddling of the United States in foreign politics. American interventions served to provide the optimal circumstances for the most profitable exploitation of foreign markets and resources by the capitalist elite.
The first part of the work explains how the anti-communist sentiment came to be in post-world war two United States. Afterwards the relation between US anti-communism and efforts to strike an arms reductions agreement with the USSR is presented. The main part of the work is meant to show and explain US interventions under the guidance of the CIA from Vietnam to Iraq. The rest of the work shows how the reckless US interventionism contributed to the rise of
terrorist threats worldwide and how the US war on terror began after the 2001 attack on the WTC.
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