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How old are you? American liberals have been complaining that US neocons have been trying to relive the Cold War my entire adult lifetime. Obama was the one moc
by rayiner 2y ago
How old are you? American liberals have been complaining that US neocons have been trying to relive the Cold War my entire adult lifetime. Obama was the one mocking Romney for his obsession with Russia. Trump is just an Al Gore liberal on this front: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-24-mn-41201-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-24-mn-41201...
It was plausible to say the Soviet Union was a threat to America because it sought to export communism worldwide. Nobody thinks Russia has any such designs.
- pjc50 2y agoIt's quite remarkable how the parties flipped on this. I wonder if you could pin it down to a specific date? Perhaps it really was just Euromaidan. The NRA getting infiltrated happened in or before 2015: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nra-2015-moscow-trip-wasnt-official-emails-photos/story?id=60715741 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nra-2015-moscow-trip-wasnt-o... => https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/26/maria-butina-sentenced-18-months-russia-nra https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/26/maria-butina...
- rayiner 2y agoIt’s not remarkable. The Reagan GOP was a coalition of capitalists, religious conservatives, and neocons united by anti-communism. The Soviet Union collapsed 35 years ago. Russia no longer poses any threat to capitalism or Christianity, leaving just the neocons. But neocons are liberals, and so have migrated back to the Democratic Party with the other liberals. It’s the reverse of the what happened when they left the Democratic Party in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism