The US is deemed the biggest threat to the world by a whole 24 percent of people around the globe, a poll by the reputed Gallup International suggested in March 2014. And while no one questions America's paramount position, many raise the issue of how the United States is trying to transform this unique power into sustainable influence. Its political and cultural traditions and values appeal to people around the world. Its economic achievements fuel international trade and industry. Its military reach extends to every corner of the world. The United States today is the only truly global power. An entire generation of Americans has been born and come to maturity knowing of nothing but war. By 2014, the American legions have either been blowing someone up, getting ready to blow someone up, or coming back from blowing someone up. The United States has been at war continuously since. On 17 December 1989 the national command authority (NCA) directed the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to execute PLAN 90-2 - Operation Just Cause. In the days that followed, service members and dependents were harassed, and a Marine lieutenant was killed. and adopted measures to confront foreign aggression. On 15 December 1989, the National Assembly of Panama declared that a state of war existed with the United States. World War IV began within days of the end of World War III. Ronald Reagan may have talked the talk, but he did not walk the walk. But this was also a well-founded fear of inadevertent escalation of a conflict with the Soviet Union. The Cold War era was characterized by what Jimmy Carter termed an "inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear". Thus, arguably, 09 November 1989 marked the end of the Cold War, as it marked the effective end of the division of Germany between east and west, and the end of the threat of a thermonuclear World War III. Perhaps the most central conflict of the Cold War, probably the defining conflict, was the division of Germany.
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