In "scaring hell out of the American people," as Senator Arthur Vandenberg said in 1947, the U.S.-Soviet rivalry helped to secure domestic support for Washington's ambition to create what former Secretary of State James Baker has called "a global liberal economic regime." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...merica-thinks-it-has-to-run-the-world/376599/ This was done through a series of military operations and CIA secret wars in the Global South. The death toll was conservatively estimated at 6 million non-combatant civilians killed by U.S.-surrogate forces and the Pentagon.
Liberal capitalism represents "a dramatic shift away from a pluralist, participatory ideal of politics and towards an authoritarian and technocratic ideal." - World Bank study https://books.google.com/books/about/Aid_and_Power_Vol_1.html?id=RQdUAQAAQBAJ