America, throughout its history, is very notable for its involvement in coups, regime changes, and assassinations in foreign countries, especially during the Cold War period. Today I’ll be giving an underdeveloped lay perspective on the regime changes during the Cold War period with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, a self-proclaimed socialist state, was the main geopolitical rival of the United States during the 20th century. During the Cold War, both countries were very understandably scared of the potential for war between themselves since they were both armed nuclear countries . Instead of them fighting for hegemonic power by engaging in direct war with each other they did via technological innovation, and political influence in other countries. Many socialist governments, and movements were friendly to the Soviet Union during this time. America, afraid of the rise of Soviet influence in other countries, supported liberal democracies, and right-wing nationalist authoritarian governments. These included West Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, Japan, Chile, and many others, all because they rejected Socialism and Communism. Many of these governments were authoritarian, right-wing, anti-Communist governments. Because of America sponsoring coups and uprisings against democratically elected left-wing governments, many center-left, like social liberals and social democrats, don’t like this tendency of America during the Cold War. I will present reasons why I, as a liberal social democrat, support many of the regime changes, and think others should as well. Many of the socialist states of the 20th century I think liberals generally agree are bad. They were very restrictive in regards to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and had routine mismanagement which led to mass suffering, from famines to mass killings of political dissidents. Authoritarian right-wing nationalist governments are also known to engage in these behaviors, so why support the United States sponsoring coups of these governments? Well for one, the United States, a liberal democratic government being the main influence on an authoritarian country seems much better than the Soviet Union being the same one, and in the long run it seems as though countries that were socialist in the 20th century were unable to transition to less authoritarian, liberal democratic states, with the exception of Eastern Europe. Chile, South Korea, Taiwan, etc. were able to transition out of their right-wing authoritarianism to liberal democratic states; Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and Russia on the other hand were unable to make that transition.

As of a few months ago I have a girlfriend. I met her when we were both 15 online a few years ago in 2020. We lost contact for a while, but we started talking again in December 2024, and during summer this year we started dating . Now we are both 20. I’m not gonna go into too much detail about her, but she’s a super sweet girl, and we love each others lots . I have spent a lot of time preoccupied with my love recently which is part of the reason why this site has been rather dead. That aside, one really cool thing that will happen soon for me is a trip to Massachusetts, where my girlfriend lives currently. We are going to be meeting for the first time in person, and going around to various places of note in Massachusetts, and New England as a whole. New England is one of the older parts of the country, so there’s lots of historical sites, and old car-free cities that I wish to visit which just by default places it at a higher level of interest to me than most American regions. I’m from Georgia, so it’s also just a really different part of the country for me, especially as I have never really left the southern part of the United States before. So yeah, that was a little update on what’s been going on in my life since I last updated this website. I look forward to updating this blog again after I’m done with this trip.

Social Contract Theory is often used by liberals(I mean liberals in the classical sense) to justify the existence, and authority of modern states. It became very popular during the Age of Enlightenment with academics, with the theory becoming the dominant way to justify states during this period. There were many advocates of Social Contract Theory during the Enlightenment period, but two of the biggest advocates were Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke. There are differences between the Social Contract theories of various writers, but if I were to try my best to give a definition that would seem a reasonable explanation of the collective popular Social Contract theories I would say the following. Social Contract Theory is the theory that suggests before social, and political orders formed that humans were in “The State of Nature”, during this state humans were sovereign individuals who had no obligations to each other. They stole, killed, and raped each other if they had the power to do, because of this predicament humans lacked security, property rights, and comfort so they formed agreements(The Social Contract) for the collective interest in security, property rights, and comfort of themselves. With these agreements they submitted to an enforcer of the contract as their authority, whether that authority be an individual, a group of individuals, an absolute monarch, or a democratic republic. An extension of this theory named Realism claims that all modern states are in the state humans were in during The State of Nature, sovereigns with no authority that act as they wish as long as they have a strength to do so.