The US Started the Cold War

The US Started the Cold War

Update: 2025-06-04
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The Cold War is often portrayed as a great power struggle between the forces of democracy and a spreading communist threat. But what if the conventional story gets it exactly backwards?


In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber and Melissa Naschek discuss the rise of the American empire and how the US used the Cold War to spread capitalism across the globe.

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The US Started the Cold War

The US Started the Cold War