How does this quote by Aristotle relate to WWII, the Cold War, and the Marshall Plan? How did we follow it after World War Two? How was our approach different from World War One?

After the success of the sputnik launch, the united states feared that they would never be able to launch their own satellite, the ussr had used technology developed by the united states, the soviets had superior nuclear capabilities, that any future us satellites would not be as successful.