Back in the 1960s California governor Pat Brown was heartened to be opposed by Ronald Reagan, thinking he'd be the easiest Republican to beat. And the DNC in 2015 had a memo suggesting that they "elevate" Trump in the GOP. And of course the Germans & Lenin.https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/status/1218936905061941248 …
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Did it really though? If the German government hadn’t been run by madmen in the succeeding decades, maneuvering your biggest long term threat into a position where it is unable to make solid alliances with your other neighbours seems like a win.
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Stalin made it competitive for the Germans. He ordered the Russians not to fire back on the German invasion (he didn't think it was real) and then sulked in ris room for months, thereby paralysing the entire bureaucratic state he had molded.
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