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It’s 1996, and Christopher Kaiser’s staggering gambling debts have finally caught up with him, just in time for his wife Elisa to announce she’s pregnant. He is convinced there could not be a worse time for them to have a child, but then, he is coerced into helping aircraft enter the country illegally, supposedly for a good cause.

The title of Norwegian-born historian Odd Arne Westad's 2005 work - The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - offers a window into his thesis. Between the end of World War II and the early 1990s, both the Soviet Union and the United States "intervened" (or "offered aid and support to") developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In Westad's view, these interventions were more important than events in Europe, where most studies of the Cold War focus.