looking forward to being officially able to call it the First Cold War
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It got dialed back over time, but in the fifties you could say that international socialism was the shining future of humanity, and that communism was an achievable goal, though the road would be hard. And you could point to lots of persuasive evidence. What's the equivalent now?
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I mean, where was the evidence for that at the peak of the Cold War in, say, 1979?
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Its ultimate goal is to ensure that Uraguay corporations and newspapers don't criticize China, that the Chinese diaspora in Uraguay doesn't turn against the party, and that Uighur are deported by Uraguay to the PRC.
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Just because the PRC goals are *even more cynical* doesn't mean it doesn't still, for all intents and purposes, seek similar domination to the Soviets. The Soviets didn't want Marxist countries alone; they wanted Marxist countries *that did what Moscow told them.*
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I don't buy that stalin's Russia had any real focus on world domination, that ship sailed in like 1935. The cold war was great power conflict with an ideological veneer, little more.
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I think the ideology went deeper than you might think - consider how big a factor nostalgia for the revolutionary idealism of their youth was in drawing the Soviets into Afghanistan, for instance. (AFGHANTSY, by the former British ambassador, is excellent on this)
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