1. To address the scare-mongering NY Times piece on Sanders in the USSR in the 1980s more seriously, the crucial context was the thaw & opening, which was welcomed not only by the left but also, crucially, by conservative leaders like Reagan and Thatcher.https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1235759796877434880 …
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Tired: Bernie was just doing a nice diplomatic mission Wired: Bernie was acting as a Soviet Asset Inspired: Bernie was a US Asset working to bring down the Soviet Union
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Was it? I think a lot of westerners underestimate just how horrific that transistion was to the average Russian. What did they transition to? A kleptocracy?
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Unfortunately, few people in the 4 or 5 deciding swing states will read pass the first line of tweet 2/3...
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This thinking carried over into dealing with China
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Did they transition to democracy tho
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The greatest display of democracy the world has ever known, the Russian election of 1996
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The NYT politics desk is addicted to click baiting. If you were alive & sentient in the late eighties you realize this article is a joke.
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Sorry, this won’t work in 2020, thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union. No matter what President Reagan may have said.
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It helped the transition to oligarchy. What are you talking about, Jeet.
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