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Michael Shurkin's avatar

Correction: The US did loan France money after WW2, which the French have at least partially paid off.

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Benoit Vettier's avatar

so yes, it's over...

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Michael Shurkin's avatar

That Zelensky meeting was shocking.

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Benoit Vettier's avatar

Quite a bit of talk in Europe about whether there should be a quick re-think of cooperation policies with China, not to replace the US but so as to not burn our eastern bridges in case of upcoming trade wars with trump.

One could also wonder whether trump cozying up to putin could be an attempt at separating russia from china, but this kind of hypothesis is doomed to backfiring spectacularly.

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Michael Shurkin's avatar

I've heard some chatter about separating Russia from China. Sounds like a bad idea. Maybe if we had people the caliber of Nixon and Kissinger in charge...

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