1. Some of us, have been talking about this for quite some time. A brief history of the idea of an American/Russian alliance to preserve global white supremacy. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1018984541929836544 …
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7. Vidal, 1986: "After all, the white race is the minority race and if the two great powers of the Northern Hemisphere don’t band together, we are going to end up as farmers—or, worse, mere entertainment—for more than one billion grimly efficient Asiatics.”
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8. I haven't read post-Cold WAr Tom Clancy, but apparently he's part of this story as well. https://twitter.com/yeeyee187/status/1019005483678511104 …
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9. Pat Buchanan in 2013 asked if Putin were "one of us?" (Spoiler alert: yes!)pic.twitter.com/mMOFXvOiNP
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10. All of which is to say that one of the core ideas of Trump's foreign policy has been kicking around the ideological fringes since 1970s. Part of what Trump has done is take fringe idea & bring it to White House.
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11. I think discussion of USA/Russia alliance idea are too narrowly Trump focused. He might be attracted to idea for personal reasons (debts, blackmail) but there is a wider variety of USA far right that genuinely loves Russia.
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12. Some more thoughts on this (with links to the stuff I've quoted here):https://newrepublic.com/article/139817/donald-trump-wants-ignore-russia-worry-china …
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13. Addendum: because this pro-Russian stuff has a genuine base of support in GOP, smart play for Trump is not to back down but to hold firm, rally the Buchananites, Tucker Carlson people, etc. & scare the GOP establishment.
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14. There's some inkling out there that this time Trump has gone too far & congressional GOP will revolt. Maybe. But I think Trump could still rally his base on this and scare the GOP.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1019009821926936576 …
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15. Speaking of Pat Buchanan:https://twitter.com/ChroniclesMag/status/1019016155913179136 …
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There was even a U.S.-Japan war in one of them.
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