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One way in which policies to maintain global influence in the United States were similar to the policies to maintain global influence in the Soviet Union during the Cold War was that the United States tries to protect its economic and political interest in other regions of the world, as for example, in the case of the Middle East.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union spread communism over many regions of the world, basically in Eastern Europe and its satellite countries such as Poland Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Albania, and Romania.
I n a similar way, the United States has a strong influence in different parts of the world, such as in the Persian Gulf and the Arab nations, due basically to oil deposits.
