2. In the current moment when USA confidence is flat on the floor, it's weird to recall the giddy decade after 1989 when Americans (and Westerners of all sorts) parachuted into the former Eastern bloc with advice on modernization.
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3. The imperial hubris of the 1990s shared not just by conservatives but also (perhaps more so) by centrists like Anne Applebaum and liberals like Larry Summers. They knew what ailed Eastern Europe and had all sorts of remedies, quack or otherwise, to sell.
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@bellye66 reported a fair bit from Eastern Europe and has some stories to share (about Pat Buchanan in Lithuania & Cardinal Gleck vs. The Rolling Stones). I talked with him about this story of hubris and retributionhttps://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-carpetbaggers-in-eastern?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …Show this thread
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