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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 23
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      Wonder if being Jewish made Morgenthau an extremist in wanting to impose a “hard peace” on Germany. Hitler and the Nazis are curiously missing in this whole discussion. I guess the economists wanted to forget that and move on.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 23
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      It’s clear that after Yalta it was already US vs USSR. The last phase of WW2 was about laying out the cold war positions, and cleaning up the Nazis was just a minor loose end. I knew this already but book makes it clear the extreme degree to which that was true.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 23
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      The last 3 months after Yalta must have been surreal. Feb- 11 - May 8 1945, the world was still focused on Nazis but powers-that-be were already continuing the infinite game. The mop-up really was a minor detail.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 23
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      Something similar might happen with Covid. Post-Covid world configuration will be worked out somewhere when the end is in sight but the war is not yet won. Big lesson right now is: Trumpism is more Morganthau than Marshall 😬 Bidenism might be too. And Xi = Stalin role? Crap.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 24
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      By the time Kennan turned his long telegram into an article, he’d shifted from a perimeter containment to a strong-point defense model that demanded much lower economic burden. Congress was suspicious Soviets would drain the US economy through entanglements all along perimeter.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 24
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      Military shrank from 83B in 1945 to 42.7 in 1947 to 12.8B in 1947. Armed forced went from 12m to 1.6m personnel. Army secretary wanted 20% more budget if economic aid was voted down. The plan had to be an economic one. Literal butter over guns choice. Arm

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 24
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      Truman and his Republican senate ally Vandenberg were both born in 1884. Freaks me out how such modern events were shaped by people born just before industrial modernity. Electricity was new in 1884. Airplanes didn’t exist. Humans hunted mammoths. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Vandenberg …

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 26
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      Kennan begins drafting PPS/1: Policy Planning Staff paper 1. Stark contrast to messy committee output of SWNCC. Lays out clear framework instead of wishful thinking muddle. https://www.russilwvong.com/future/kennan/pps1.html …

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 26
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      Key doctrinal points: - No requirement to trade with East - Grants, not loans (contra Morganthau, lend-lease, IMF) - Anti-Soviet strings attached - (W) Germany to be made strong; France would have to deal - (W) Europe to be integrated; UK would have to deal

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    10. (((webhat)))‏ @webhat Sep 9
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      Grants, not loans, to everyone except Great Britain. GB only recently finished paying of the loans.

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      Not quite correct. A small part to UK was loans pre-plan, but they also received heavy direct grants once the plan kicked in.

      12:23 AM - 10 Sep 2020
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          Really, the way I understood it mainland Europe got mainly grants and the UK got mainly loanspic.twitter.com/Kqa4bOOHkm

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