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Remember when Nixon made detente with China and drove a wedge between China and Russia. Now where's a diplomat like Nixon when we need one.
A lefty who is wishing for the days of Nixon. How ironic.

Were you even alive then?

The context of that time was that Communism was in full swing in both Russia and China. China had enormous sway with the North Vietnamese. It wasn't so much Russia that Nixon was driving a wedge between as it was North Vietnam and China.

Russia was China's rival, but they cooperated at some levels. Both sent arms to North Vietnam, but China had people on the ground in large numbers there as well. Ho Chi Minh was paranoid after Nixon's visit to China. He had a very hard time trusting China after that. The China/Russia dynamic essentially stayed the same for all appearances.
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