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Visions of Freedom w/ Piero Gleijeses Part 2

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Regan's Foreign Policy in the Seventies

Regan promised an even more aggressive and reactionary foreign policy all over the place, including in southern africa. His focus was not eastern europe, where roll back would have meant war with the soviet union, but the third world,. Defeats of the 19 seventies had occurred, viet nam, afghanistan, angola, ethiopia, zimbaba, nicaragua, granada. There were quite serious proposals within the rakin administration to actually invade cuba, which cuba took very credibly.

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