Rockefeller took charge of a declining empire. Rebellions were becoming increasingly widespread, and Rockefeller, despite being a moderate, fough against them harshly. Rockefeller crushed insurgents in the Philippines and Brazil, and ordered CDL leader Fidel Castro killed in an airstrike. Rockefeller also instituted the Richmond Degree, giving territorial governments broader autonomy to crush revolutions. However, rebellions exploded across the I.S.A, from France to Peru to Iran to the Congo. The burning of the Amazon rain forest in order to destroy Brazilian revolutionaries resulted in a ecological crisis, and Rockefeller invaded Afghanistan in 1988, resulting in a disastrous occupation. After the African Revolt broke out in 1990, and protests in Paris that same year, Rockefeller was over