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https://twitter.com/RG_Horvath/status/1685255961672646656The key issue for American policy-makers in the 1990s and early 2000s was how to strengthen democratic tendencies in Russia at a time when Russia was clearly facing democratic backsliding and a nationalistic resurgence. The line to be walked was thin and far from obvious.
https://twitter.com/baklitskiy/status/1668614552089690113... from there offer Chinese firm backing in fighting a war with the United States. Karaganov's calculus here - so familiar from Cold War musings - is that Washington doesn't care enough about Europe to retaliate if Russia went nuclear.
https://twitter.com/KeirGiles/status/1666707177099100160Now, Latvian colleagues will be quick to correct me, emphasising that freedom was taken not given, and I would say they are about 50% correct.
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1666464348183703555We are now in a very different situation. Although there are signs that the Russians are not all too happy to be China's "younger brothers," the two countries are extremely close politically and ideologically, and share a very solid (and ever deepening) economic relationship.
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1662471688506728450He brilliantly outplayed the Soviets in the Middle East. @Martin_Indyk tells the story in his "Master of the Game" (amazon.co.uk/Master-Game-Ki…), and you will see it also in my book, with new evidence.
https://twitter.com/DrRadchenko/status/1659664330554499073The whole thing just shows how important history has become to Putin's imperialism, i.e. as a form of rationalisation. I wrote about this recently for the Journal of Contemporary History: cambridge.org/core/journals/…. Just another reminder.