https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb en-us 2021-05-19 17:27:14 UTC 2023-07-01 16:50:23 UTC hello@padlet.com rconnor22 https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1579284094 2021-06-02 12:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1579284094 rconnor22 https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1579285616 2021-06-02 12:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1579285616 rconnor22 https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580016709 2021-06-02 16:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580016709 rconnor22 https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580018173 "the combined military and economic power of the alliance was not distributed at all evenly. When France, the second largest economy in the alliance, started to distance itself from NATO in the 60s, it made up only 6.6% of the alliance's military spending, while the United States made up 77.4%. Because of this massive disparity, countries like France could do nothing to affect the US dominance over the region."]]> 2021-06-02 16:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580018173 rconnor22 https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580025797 2021-06-02 16:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580025797 rconnor22 https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580028577 "The longest and most significant border between capitalist and communist countries was the famous Iron curtain from 'Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,' which NATO surrounded with the ring of anti-communist countries from Norway to Turkey. With Europe in a standstill, the United States could focus entirely on preventing the spread of communism in the east [...] and the global south"]]> 2021-06-02 16:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580028577 rconnor22 https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580029224 Although the common opinion in the United States is that NATO and the American influence in Western Europe was a direct response to the Warsaw Pact and Soviet influence in Eastern Europe, the Warsaw Pact was not formed until 9 years after NATO was, meaning NATO could have fought another World War Two after formation and would have finished without the Warsaw Pact yet existing.]]> 2021-06-02 16:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580029224 rconnor22 https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580029960 "US calls for decolonization were meant not to liberate oppressed peoples, but to limit the power of Western Europe. [...] This is [...] why British colonies like South Africa continued to be controlled by Europeans living there." The decolonization of the global south under the United States lead to almost no increase in the quality of life of people living in exploited countries, but it did achieve the goal of limiting European control over Europe, further empowering the United States.]]> 2021-06-02 16:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rconnor22/iiby6o8wpip58isb/wish/1580029960