Word: alignments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afghanistan gives the West a golden opportunity to turn the Third World against the Soviets, but that this chance will be lost if Soviet-Western relations deteriorate into a new cold war. Says one Italian diplomat: "If there is a confrontation, the Third World would not be able to align itself with the West because this would cause internal problems with its population. But if the West avoided a confrontation, it could rally Third World countries and the Soviet Union would be isolated...
...Five nations have nuclear arsenals, a couple more have the bomb but no way to use it, and a dozen others might get in it a few years. The maintenance of international peace and stability is essential for global survival. We no longer perceive an international Communist conspiracy (we align with the Chinese and are not yet conducting domestic witchhunts) but Sovietophobia is giving domestic reactionaries and demagogues a field day. We can no longer manipulate the Third World as we once did, and so we have to consider their viewpoint, their interests, in our calculations. Perhaps Marxism offers...