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Totally fair - apologies if I appeared snarky. I would have used harsher language, but yours is not incorrect.
No worries. If it's just that you want to highlight how fucking shitty the US's conduct was, I'm 100% with you. I just don't want to see the issue reduced to "Active US and USSR, passive victims" - the Cold War was extremely diplomatically dynamic, and the two superpowers themselves often could barely keep up with developments in the rapidly decolonizing post-WW2 world. I considered "backing" the most applicable term because the tug-of-war between the superpowers was largely played out by, well, backing pre-existing factions and strongmen. The Cold War in most countries happened very much in the context of national politics, not just the Great Power politics of the two big names.