3. In 1970/80s, USA had tacit alliance with China to contain Soviet Union. Now Trump seems to want to use Russia against China.
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4. The National Enquirer (whose publisher is Trump ally) spelled this out quite clearly here:https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/820423278489702401 …
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5. National Enquirer: "US-Russia Alliance to Destroy China." This is actually not a new idea but has flourished on fringes for decades.
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6. In 1970s, far-right science fiction writers Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven started CoDominium series portraying US/USSR global rule
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7. In 1986 Gore Vidal argued for US/USSR to ally against Sino-Japanese ("one billion grimly efficient Asiatics")pic.twitter.com/HehF6dpgUz
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8. Vidal the supposed radical might seem world's away from Trump but there is an interesting congruence.
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9. Vidal's 1986 essay The Empire Lovers Strike Back admirable for being honest about the racism of this vision:https://books.google.ca/books?id=m1GDAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42&dq=vidal+the+empire+lovers+strike+back+sino-japanese&source=bl&ots=iaZJwBfEAa&sig=-3KbAtfCdbclkJ4RKeGT31EbjW8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM9pLQirzRAhVF54MKHVd7DnAQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=vidal%20the%20empire%20lovers%20strike%20back%20sino-japanese&f=false …
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10. It's important to realize that so-called isolationism always had a strong strain of racism, usually in fear of "Yellow Peril"
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11. As against liberal internationalisms attempt to create global community, "isolationism" tends to see world divided on race lines
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The complication is convergence of isolationism & a self-styled "left" anti-imperialism.
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That's always been there. Norman Thomas was "American First". William Appleman Williams admired Hoover's foreign policy.
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Not isolationism but the (naive) vision of a world without war
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May not be exactly isolationist, but it's akin. Part of Thomas' stance is that WWII is replay of WWI, imperialist rivalry.
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