"The most important reality facing us today is the shrinking global influence of the West." Hence, USA should cling to dictatorships "which, despite not always behaving precisely as we might like, have nevertheless been our friends."
Reagan in 1977.
Hence his administration was friendly with authoritatian regimes such as South Korea, Pinochet's Chile(who followed the economic policies of Milton Friedman), Apartheid South Africa, Argentina("the dirty war")....quite similar to Margaret Thatcher, in fact.
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