The paper most people took at the time was The Palo Alto Times, a peninsula paper you may remember, which won several awards in its time. I remember when I lived on the peninsula and when the Viet Nam War was just on the point of starting. Over and over and over we seem to fall into the same trap, and the “powers that be” love it. I am about the same age as you, Robert Reich, and this looks very familiar to both of us, and also very disgusting. I seem to remember going down this road before. Hopefully, Biden’s advisors aren’t thinking this way. The possibility of war also distracts the public from failures of domestic politics, as the Spanish-American War did for President William McKinley and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq did for George W. Republicans are already portraying Biden as “weak” in his response to Putin. The Vietnam War put a stop to Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. World War I brought the progressive era to a screeching halt. The mere threat of warfare often ends periods of domestic reform.
Hence the acute danger of what we’re seeing now in Washington and the Kremlin. Other NATO member countries are putting their armed forces on standby alert and sending additional ships and fighter jets to Eastern Europe. He has ordered family members of the U.S. Joe Biden is about to deploy thousands of American troops, along with warships and aircraft, to NATO allies in the Baltic and Eastern Europe. And he’s suggesting he’ll ship hypersonic missiles to Venezuela and Cuba, aimed at the United States. He’s also preparing live-fire naval exercises around the world. Vladimir Putin is amassing hundreds of thousands of troops on three sides of Ukraine’s border with Russia.
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