Deterring Democracy: "also contains criticism aimed at the #Soviet Union and other communist states, but its major point centres on the fact that although the US claimed to support #freedom in the Cold War, it still supported #authoritarian regimes. The conclusion that !Chomsky comes to is that, despite U.S claims of supporting freedom, their actual aim was maintaining #dominance over #resources and #geopolitical power." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterring_Democracy cc @question