students must reply ONCE to a different student’s main post as…

Question Answered step-by-step students must reply ONCE to a different student’s main post as… students must reply ONCE to a different student’s main post as their 90-word follow-up post. You must also include a quote of 50 words from our readings in both posts! Westad dubs the United States “the empire of liberty” in reference to its ideology of liberty that encourages intervention in foreign politics and conflicts under the belief that it has a responsibility to spread its ideas and promote foreign nations to adopt governments more similar to its own. This ideology is born from a belief in american exceptionalism as well as a fear that leaving nations that they believed to be undeveloped to their own devices may eventually lead to them becoming a threat to America’s own liberty.  Westad states that after World War II the U.S. adopted the belief that it “could and should assist in the finessing and the content of these nationalisms and the reforms they envisaged  for their countries when liberated from the enemy menace.” Similarly, Russia/the Soviet Union is referred to as “the empire of justice” in reference to its own pro-intervention ideology born from a misplaced sense of responsibility, a high opinion of itself, and low opinion and fear of nations they viewed as less civilized a potentially dangerous, though theirs is more focused on ideas of collectivism and social justice than personal freedom. Westad notes how Stalin and the soviet leadership “wanted to extend Soviet influence in Europe – crucially, along its western borders, but also, if possible, into Central Europe and Germany itself” as a means of gaining allies and protecting the Stalinist regime. History World History HIST 4260 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)