Which best describes why Stalin believed having satellite states would help prevent future wars

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the american civil war was not caused   by slavery but by economic factors.

they gained control over the philippines, east dutch indies/indonesia, much of new guinea, the solomon islands, guam, and other strategic areas all over the western pacific. japan even occupied part of the aleutian islands, which belonged to alaska.

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