Democratic states are not alone in seeking to expand their influence. The Soviet Union also wanted to surround itself with a protective buffer of like-minded states, and Italy’s Benito Mussolini was proud that for a time fascism was a competitive export.
并不只有民主国家热衷于扩大影响力。苏联也希望在周边营造由观念类似国家组成的保护圈，而意大利的墨索里尼也曾经以法西斯主义成为极有竞争力的输出品而自豪。