'The level of actual Chinese influence and power across the Western Hemisphere right now is far, far greater than it ever was with the Soviet Union in the Cold War,' Evan Ellis, a Latin America analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and professor at the..…

It's idea that sprung out of McCarthy Nazi-era like NATO to arm the US to the teeth, maximizing profits of the military complex, under the pretext of halting the advancement of Soviet Union into just liberated western Europe, just liberated from Hitler's Nazi- Germany. ..…

It was also an alliance to maintain unity among the historic colonial powers in the midst of former colonies gaining their independence from western domination. . At the time NATO was founded in 1949, there was little possibility of aggression by the Soviet Union after a war that..…