The geographical/historical ignorance contained in that tweet is also quite somethinghttps://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/888450325052628997 …
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Ironically, Russia became exactly the sort of capitalist, racist, gangster state the USSR always claimed the USA to be.
The Soviets took more the monopoly capital view or finance capital intertwined w/ big industrial monopolies. Maoists took gangster line?
Putin may have been swayed to cultivate Trump by old Soviet intelligence that US is a racist country pacified by bourgeois entertainment.
I don't meet to sound stupid but... what if the Cold War was never about ideology?
Uh, no, the root error is thinking it's suspect that someone would marry outside his country. A lot of xenophobes make that mistake, too.
I meant root error in how Cold War frame is applied to Russia story, not just in this particular tweet.
I agree with you here. Now imagine a Dem President married to person from a Muslim dominant country; every move would be accused of bias.
Especially if every move actually reflected bias to home country of the spouse.
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