2. During the high Cold War (1945-1963), a Russia America alliance would have been unthinkable. That changed in 1960s when main threat to American hegemony emerged as anti-imperialist nationalism, not always communist, from Vietnam to Middle East to Latin America.
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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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In the 1990s and early 2000s Russia seemed like a US ally; it's portrayed as a friend in popular series like James Bond and 24 season 5.
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It took until well into the War on Terror for the West to see Putin as an authoritarian revanchist and not as another Yeltsin.
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During the cold war, shameful treatment of black Americans at home was a sore strike against American freedom. Modern Russia has no such ideological framework to talk around, to wit.
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