NATO has been encroaching via soft power for the last 2 decades. I wrote a paper in college in 2004 about how we were in a brief cooling period between relations with USA/Russia because both sides were using violent Islamism as a means to pursue geopolitical aims and both sides were willing to look the other way while they publicly were fighting a "mutual foe"
It's wild to me they built up for a new cold war with China, tarriffs warfare, new red scare, new yellow peril, "human rights", wall to wall media consensus; and now this?
China is a stronger and more stable enemy for the yankkk government. Russia is a safe bet, and it builds upon a century of propaganda instead of 15 years
Russia was supposed to be defeated after the collapse of the USSR and subsequent neoliberal looting under Yeltsin. What pisses off people like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden is seeing all of their "hard work" winning the Great Game go to waste as Russia reasserts itself as part of a multipolar world rather than just spiraling into a black hole.
NATO has been encroaching via soft power for the last 2 decades. I wrote a paper in college in 2004 about how we were in a brief cooling period between relations with USA/Russia because both sides were using violent Islamism as a means to pursue geopolitical aims and both sides were willing to look the other way while they publicly were fighting a "mutual foe"
Seems all that shit's at an end.
It's wild to me they built up for a new cold war with China, tarriffs warfare, new red scare, new yellow peril, "human rights", wall to wall media consensus; and now this?
China is a stronger and more stable enemy for the yankkk government. Russia is a safe bet, and it builds upon a century of propaganda instead of 15 years
Russia was supposed to be defeated after the collapse of the USSR and subsequent neoliberal looting under Yeltsin. What pisses off people like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden is seeing all of their "hard work" winning the Great Game go to waste as Russia reasserts itself as part of a multipolar world rather than just spiraling into a black hole.
Joe Biden needs another 9/11 before the midterms.
Not super important, but wouldn't that be more like "a brief warming"?
Maybe he means cooling off?
I guess the using temperature to describe foreign relations is more ambiguous than I thought...
You make a good point, I should have said a warming.
"thawing" works I think
Meh English is weird.
yeah I would've phrased it as "a brief period of detente" or even "brief detente