“...Nixon also claimed to want to end the war, but what was secret until 5 years ago was well-known to the Soviets: Nixon had torpedoed the Paris Peace Talks to prolong the war and promote his own electoral chances. An honest person would call Nixon’s act traitorous. It goes without saying that the Soviets wanted the US mired in Vietnam....”
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Sorry, Nixon did NOT torpedo those talks. Well before the November 1968 election the Paris Peace Talks were doomed. Neither the North Vietnamese nor the South Vietnamese were serious about ending the war at that time.
The parallels to 2016 are stunning. The tangible thing missing is a war. If you view the whole Russia-fabrication thing as an analogue, it’s almost deja vu, NSA & all (at least from my perspective), save for some “Trump tapes” (the latter of which stoked the headlines for a number of weeks).