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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

      3. Humiliated by Vietnamese resistance movement, under challenge from newly energized "Third World," buffeted by OPEC oil rise, some in USA started thinking: "hey, the Russians might not be so bad. At least they're white."

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

      4."Bismarck was supposed to have said that the most important fact of the twentieth century would be that Americans speak English; it is not impossible that the most important condition of the next hundred years might be that the Russians are, after all, white.” John Lukacs 1970

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

      5. Starting in 1973, the science fiction writers Jerry Pournelle & Larry Nivens, both with deep ties to military-industrial complex, wrote a series of novels imagining a USA/USSR partnership to rule the world.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

      6. Gore Vidal, from his own eccentric position as an isolationist leftist, agreed. 1986 in The Nation: "For America to survive economically in the coming Sino-Japanese world, an alliance with the Soviet Union is a necessity."

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

      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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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

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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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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

      9. Pat Buchanan in 2013 asked if Putin were "one of us?" (Spoiler alert: yes!)pic.twitter.com/mMOFXvOiNP

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

      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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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Josh Marshall

          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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          Josh MarshallVerified account @joshtpm
          I admit the tenor of this seems different than earlier times. But most likely outcome is Trump meets with GOP Reps/Sens, begrudgingly reads out a 'I believe Russia did it' catechism and Reps and Sens pronounce him good to go.
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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2018

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Chronicles Magazine

          15. Speaking of Pat Buchanan:https://twitter.com/ChroniclesMag/status/1019016155913179136 …

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          Chronicles Magazine @ChroniclesMag
          Buchanan: "Trump repudiated the records and agendas of the neocons and their liberal interventionist allies, as well as the archipelago of War Party think tanks beavering away inside the Beltway." https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/trump-calls-off-cold-war-ii/ …
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        2. Alon‏ @alon_levy 16 Jul 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          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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        3. Alon‏ @alon_levy 16 Jul 2018
          Replying to @alon_levy @HeerJeet

          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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        1. Daniel Farina‏ @danfarina 16 Jul 2018
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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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