![]() ![]() It soon becomes apparent to the US - by far the richest and most powerful country to emerge after the war - that these countries would play a critical role in shaping the rest of the 20th century and beyond. ![]() Across the world, third world countries - those not directly aligned with the Allied or Soviet group of nations - was doing a lot of soul-searching after most of these countries declared independence or was slowly inching towards that goal. Greece soon fights off a civil war between leftist and right-wing factions. Western Europe, much of the epicenter of the war, had just elected communist governments much to the chagrin of the US. Vincent Bevins’ The Jakarta Method is an incisive, encompassing, historical book that helps place one of the largest state-sponsored massacres in the 20th century to its role in world history how it influenced the CIA and its subsequent tactics in supporting regime change, as well as the current discourse in regards to communism that so much of the world still holds today.īevins’ starts off the book with an exploration of what the world looked like after World War 2. ![]()
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