Complex sentence: Securing political control over states ruled by propped-up, illegitimate, client-regimes were the choices made over and over again, in the heat of the anti-communist furor and fear provoked by the rise of the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China.
Split into simpler sentences: Securing political control over states ruled by propped-up, illegitimate, client-regimes were the choices made over and over again. This in the heat of the anti-communist furor and fear provoked by the rise of the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China.