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Not only was the Suez Canal crucial to the British and French economies, it affected the entire Western world's oil supply.
蘇伊士運河不僅對英法經濟至關重要，也影響到整個西方世界的石油供應
Britain, France and Israel determined to strike back, and they attacked in October.
英國，法國和以色列決定予以回擊，在10月發動了襲擊
Israel quickly captured the Sinai Peninsula, British and French special forces captured the canal.
以色列迅速占領了西奈半島，英國和法國特種部隊則占領了運河
The Soviets starting making noises about assisting Egypt.
蘇聯開始聲張說要幫助埃及
However, the UN sent in peacekeeping troops
但是聯合國派出了維和部隊
and President Eisenhower personally forced his NATO allies, Britain and France, to pull their forces out and to agree to a ceasefire.
艾森豪威爾總統也以個人名義迫使他的北大西洋公約組織盟國英國和法國撤軍停火
That was it for Britain and France as first-rank world powers.
英國和法國作為一級世界強國的歷史到此結束
Even for those "Third World" nations which remained politically independent,
甚至對于那些政治上仍然獨立的第三世界國家而言
economic independence from Europe and Asia was a completely different matter.
相對于歐洲和亞洲的經濟獨立也是完全不同的兩回事
More often than not, they found themselves sucked into either the Eastern or Western bloc.
它們多半會發現自己要么被卷入東方陣營，要么被卷入西方陣營
Nations such as Indonesia, a former Dutch colony,
像前荷蘭殖民地印度尼西亞
and Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony were often the sites of bloody guerrilla wars egged on by the United States, the USSR, or both.
和前葡萄牙殖民地莫桑比克這樣的國家經常有血腥的游擊戰發生，要么是美國，要么是蘇聯，或者兩者都有
That is to say, more proxy wars. The hammer comes down on this.
也就是說，發生了更多代理戰爭，一錘定音
