It seems that the generation of Republicans whose memory of the Cold War is clearer, who remember Ronald Reagan as "the leader we elected" and not just "the guy who was president when I was little" (and who, as a result, had several decades of Russian crimes still in their memory) were less prone to Russia's "charm offensive." Among those of us who are younger (I hate to admit it but I'm only a few months away from being one of these damned millennials that everyone has griped about for a decade and a half), there's been a definite "Moscow Calling" trend over the past decade or so.
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Yes, interesting point. One about which I could also write a whole series of posts (hmmm, I sense a "trend" here 😉) ... I am most assuredly of the uhhh ... "old school" ... class of Americans. Whose fathers fought in World War II, after growing up in the Great Depression era ...
Russia could have been ... "dealt with" (Patton should have been turned loose) ... back then, but ... The "powers that be" had other ideas (Patton died under mysterious / questionable circumstances) ... I could go even further into how the Russian people initially welcomed the Nazi armies as "liberators," at least of sorts, from Stalinist terror, but ... Ohh, wait a minute, Hitler wanted them "dealt with" only slightly less severely than the Jewish people ...
History about which far too few of our younger generations have any idea ...
The China Model is Dead." If so, maybe material for a future post!Just read this, @patriamreminisci, and thought of you. You might find it of interest - "