Word: expansionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does at home than at summits. The cold war exists not because of a lack of understanding between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; it exists because they understand each other all too well. Americans are fundamentally repelled by the character of the Soviet system: its repression, state control and expansionist tendencies. When Gorbachev came to power, U.S. officials insisted that a decrease in tensions would require a withdrawal from Afghanistan, a reduction of Soviet meddling in Africa and Central America, and at home freer speech, a more open political system and a less centralized grip on the economy...
Political sciencists couldn't have come up with a more perfect exercise in the use of military coercion. The territory of our treaty ally was invaded by her expansionist Soviet-bloc neighbor; the United States sent in troops as a warning that a deeper invasion would provoke the retaliation of our forces; the enemy withdrew without reaching its objective that threatened American national interest. It would all have been perfect, except for meddling by the Democratic congressmen who invited Managua to enjoy its Spring Break in Honduras...
Gore has supported the Administration's successful policy of reflagging Kuwaiti tankers, which has kept the sea lanes open, protected a vital U.S. strategic interest, and stymied Iran's expansionist policy. Only now are the other Democratic candidates belatedly beginning to endorse this policy. While opposing development and deployment of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), Gore supports limited research in order to keep the U.S. prepared in case the Soviets develop a similar system. Although these views may not be endorsed by Jesse Helms or Jesse Jackson, they represent a judicious, pragmatic foreign policy, one which does not wear ideological...
...military resources. Germany's downfall resulted not from economic decline, but from the foolishness of Wilhelm II's Weltpolitik, and provoking America into entering the war. Despite defeat in World War I, Germany still reigned. Hitler's rise to power in the 30's was followed by an expansionist German foreign policy, but his premature invasion of the Soviet Union and his rash declaration of war against the United States, not economic downturn, destroyed the Third Reich...
...Third World. New military agreements, as important as they are, would not be a true test of whether Gorbachev's words signify a real transformation of the cold war. That would require a tangible change in the Soviet Union's expansionist use of force, especially in the Third World. University of Michigan Professor Matthew Evangelista writes in the Nation magazine that in the new edition of the Communist Party program, "Soviet support for national liberation movements has changed from promises of economic and military assistance to expressions of 'profound sympathy...