But the United States was not ready to challenge the division of Europe between free and totalitarian spheres ; and Britain and France were embroiled in the simultaneous Suez crisis , a Western attempt to reassert empire in the Middle East that proved less successful than Khrushchev 's ultimate decision to impose Communist imperialism through force of arms .
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