Comments by "BVargas78" (@BVargas78) on "Life in East Germany | Animated History" video.

It was because America was pushing for a more global and unified form of capitalism after ww2. Partly to help maintain a united front against the new communist bloc and partly because the feeling was that the age of empires had had it's day. And an american led globalized capitalism could usher in a greater prosperity eventually for all. Such was the mindset behind it at least.
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@meganoobbg3387 I agree to a point. Also i think it's no coincidence that as soon as the soviet union and eastern bloc fell, social programs that had been a corner stone of nato democracies began to get stripped down, and jobs off-shored.
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