Hesitation is defeat

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  • I wouldn’t say that, I know very well how brutal they could be and were in Asia and South America, but it’s also true that they have proven to be reliable allies for Europe on several occasions. In my country, Portugal, we probably wouldn’t have had a democracy without their support. Not everyone in the various governments was good, of course; Kissinger, for example, wanted to invade the Azores, cut aid to Portuguese socialist (PS) and social democratic (PSD) parties and leave behind a failed communist dictatorship in Portugal as an example to discourage the Western European left. But overall, I would say that, for a relatively long period, American influence and partnership were positive in Europe.