Throughout the entire period of 1945 on, the process earned the Americans no small amount of umbrage, from . . . nearly everyone. The Europeans resented losing their colonies. The newly freed colonies disliked American efforts to corral them into a bloc to contain a country, the Soviet Union, that few had had any previous contact with. The Arab world didn’t appreciate the Americans forcing their energy cog into the Bretton Woods machine (much less attempting to make them bedfellows with the Israelis). The Mexicans begrudged Washington’s heavy-handed approach. The (post-Soviet) Russians hated
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