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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 days ago

America's Khrushchev moment

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America's Khrushchev moment

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 days ago
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There is no more tired cliché than Mark Twain’s quote “history rarely repeats itself, but it often rhymes”.
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  • Florn [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Wouldn’t Reagan be the American Krushchev?

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      That makes more sense. Trump is more like America’s Gorbachev.

      But if this is Gorbachev, I can only imagine what the American Yeltsin will be…

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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        That was actually what I thought a little while back as well, but not in the same context of doing a pivot and abandoning the ally.

        https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/comparing-trumps-policy-shifts-and

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          The nails in the coffin of my fever dream that Putin embrace communism getting heavily pounded this morning before daylight, with this post and one (from you, no less!) I read just prior.

          Best to be completely disabused of the notion and get on with dealing with reality, rather than waste much time grieving the dream, I suppose!

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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            Yeah, I don’t think USSR is coming back, and I’m not expecting United Russia to go communists. But, I do expect the fact that China, DPRK, and Vietnam are now the main allies of Russia will have a political effect in the long term.

            • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              The KPRF is the second biggest party and most Russians today are pro-USSR so internal conditions make a slide towards some good stuff possible as well.

              • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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                my thinking exactly

            • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
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              I appreciate the appropriate dose of needed temperance, comrade. 🫡❤️

      • hotcouchguy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Maybe Hegseth?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      not in the sense the article is using

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    Calling Trump America’s Khrushchev implies that an American Gorbachev exists in the future, giving up capitalism for communism.

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I think the idea that capitalism has about 30 years left in the US is pretty sensible.

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    Anyone have the full text?

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      Sadly, he has a hard paywall on his articles.

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