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At the same time, the U.S. is increasing pressure on “nonaligned” countries—building up its military presence next to Venezuela and cutting aid External link to Colombia.

The Cold War is over but the appetite for power among anti-American “nonaligned” ideologues is as it ever was.

India spent the Cold War trying to position itself as a nonaligned power.

It concentrates on five satellite states that spent the later 20th century under the thumb of Moscow — Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania — as well as the nonaligned socialist state of Yugoslavia.

Throughout the Cold War, India would be a leader of what came to be known as the nonaligned movement — formerly colonized nations that sought to develop independently of both American and Soviet influence.