No worries. If it’s just that you want to highlight how fucking shitty the US’s conduct was, I’m 100% with you. I just don’t want to see the issue reduced to “Active US and USSR, passive victims” - the Cold War was extremely diplomatically dynamic, and the two superpowers themselves often could barely keep up with developments in the rapidly decolonizing post-WW2 world. I considered “backing” the most applicable term because the tug-of-war between the superpowers was largely played out by, well, backing pre-existing factions and strongmen. The Cold War in most countries happened very much in the context of national politics, not just the Great Power politics of the two big names.
Totally fair - apologies if I appeared snarky. I would have used harsher language, but yours is not incorrect.
No worries. If it’s just that you want to highlight how fucking shitty the US’s conduct was, I’m 100% with you. I just don’t want to see the issue reduced to “Active US and USSR, passive victims” - the Cold War was extremely diplomatically dynamic, and the two superpowers themselves often could barely keep up with developments in the rapidly decolonizing post-WW2 world. I considered “backing” the most applicable term because the tug-of-war between the superpowers was largely played out by, well, backing pre-existing factions and strongmen. The Cold War in most countries happened very much in the context of national politics, not just the Great Power politics of the two big names.