> If the US did not step into WWII, at some point there would be a new world order, with or without the US intervention... 50 years after WWII is a long time and no one knows what would have happened if the US would not have stepped in.
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>Actually I was thinking a lot more recent than that- Berlin wall and Russian tanks and all that?

Not sure what you're aiming at. The russians build the wall to prevent people escaping to the west, but I fail to see what that has to do with the freedom of europeans in general. Most of the eastern european countries were under sovjet control. I don't see how the US made an end to it. The fall of the sovjet empire came largely from within. I don't see a particular significant US role in this whole process.

Walter,