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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @HeerJeet
According to Karl Hess, Barry Goldwater privately suggested a variation on convergence theory in the '60s: The US would grow more authoritarian and the USSR more free—not converging into a CoDominium, but passing each other, leaving the Russians freer than the Americans.
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Replying to @notjessewalker @HeerJeet
I confess there were a few months in 1991 when I thought this seemed plausible.
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