• MrMonkey
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    1 year ago

    Why could the US be categorized as being part of the CCCP/CCP/Warsaw Pact?

    Or do we not know what the three worlds are?

    • nednobbins
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      1 year ago

      In the original usage, those would have been part of the “second world”. The “third world” was mostly what is now called “the global south”.

      • lud
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        1 year ago

        And a few other countries here and there that were neutral, like Switzerland, Sweden, and Finland.