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Biden’s Fascist Indo-Pacific – Evergreen Review

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The story of US global hegemony is the story of the Pacific. By the end of World War II, the US had emerged as the world’s foremost capitalist power over the ruins of Japan and Europe. With military occupations spanning the globe from western Europe to the western Pacific, the new superpower set about the task of consolidating a new postwar international liberal order through the spread of “democracy” by force of arms. With communist armies on the move in Vietnam, China, Korea and the Philippines, the Pacific emerged as a primary site for Washington’s efforts to stabilize the imperialist…

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