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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2021

      1. I want to make one thing perfectly clear. I'm not against cos-play or LARPing if it is done in the right spirit, as dorky hobbyists who like to dress up on weekends. What I object to is foreign policy LARPing.pic.twitter.com/Zpfu70AYoD

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2021

      2. By foreign policy LARPing I mean the concerted attempt to model USA/China relations on the high cold war. There are signs of this everywhere. A new anonymous "Longer Telegram" (not a telegram but, yes, long) modelled after George Kennan (aka Mr. X)'s long telegram

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2021

      3. In the Washington Post we hear calls for using putative China threat for a new Sputnik moment of financing education & science. Also, absurdly, a repurposing of NATO to contain China.pic.twitter.com/rVItUPMBhs

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2021

      4. The NATO argument is a tell. "The alliance has been adrift for years. Countering China would give it focus." In other words we have a military system which serves no real purpose, a solution in search of a problem. China is a convenient problem.pic.twitter.com/XoFpvzdVXu

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2021

      5. If you needed to contain China, the first thing you'd do is strengthen alliances in Asia, not bring in fucking NATO! It's the goddamn North Atlantic Treaty Organization! But Asian countries have little appetite for new USA alliance, so we get Cold War cos-play.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2021

      6. The larger logic here is that USA elites are nostalgic for the Cold War -- a period of strong bipartisan consensus and a convenient threat that kept population docile & checked demands for change. More thoughts here:https://www.thenation.com/article/world/china-cold-war-larping/ …

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        2. William Earl Burns‏ @williameburns13 15 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Yes, the 1960s, the famous era of a docile population that made no demands for change.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Mar 2021
          Replying to @williameburns13

          I didn't say the nostalgia was based on an accurate understanding of the past.

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        1. Patrick Staunton‏ @PatrickinNOLA 15 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I would propose a lot of people treat climate change orthodoxy a lot like Sen. McCarthy treated the great red scare

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        1. matt b‏ @mattkb 15 Mar 2021
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          my take: the SEATO flag is coolpic.twitter.com/VneWapr2H6

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        2. Dean Baker‏ @DeanBaker13 15 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Jeet -- you're way too polite. Wee redistribute hundreds of billions (maybe more than $1 tr) upwards each year with intellectual property rules. The beneficiaries want to continue to make these longer and stronger.

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        3. Dean Baker‏ @DeanBaker13 15 Mar 2021
          Replying to @DeanBaker13 @HeerJeet

          These policies are against the interest of 90 percent of the population. But if we can make them part of our Cold War against the evil Chinese, then who can argue?

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        2. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd 15 Mar 2021
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          Marginally better than Orwell worship and thinking every moment is Munich '38, because the legacy is containment rather than conquest, but only marginally.

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        3. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd 15 Mar 2021
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          A generational shift from 2001, where the oldest statesmen remembered the 30s.

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        1. Rick does Math and stuff‏ @rick_does_math 15 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          This all feeds my general feelings about American zeitgeist -that the nation as a whole is stuck in nostalgia about post-WWII dominance. Thinking it was all about us, when it never really was. (It was "nobody bombed North America.")

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        1. Eric the Red  🌹☧‏ @Eric13Red 15 Mar 2021
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          First time as tragedy, the second time as farce

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