“Until now, Nichols wrote, ‘[a] world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was…the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies.’ Now that alliance exists. Nichols laments that Trump and Putin have fulfilled the dreams of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and the Cold War leaders who followed him, humbling and humiliating the mighty United States.”
#HeatherCoxRichardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18-2026
cwgrody
npub1g0…0ctlr
2026-10-19 15:16:54 UTC
Author Public Key
npub1g0nvy6grxm05x2lup242trf2jkpkkz7g0yt09m390leum7260c4sz0ctlrSeen on
wss://relay.ditto.pubPublished at
2026-10-19 15:16:54 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "6a21d2d8b88feb077a68718886db21ebffaeb136a704880944d3c5ab6e8bd5f6",
"pubkey": "43e6c2690336df432bfc0aaaa58d2a95836b0bc87916f2ee257ff3cdf95a7e2b",
"created_at": 1792423014,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"t",
"HeatherCoxRichardson"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/cwgrody/statuses/117468234703720359",
"activitypub"
],
[
"client",
"Mostr",
"31990:6be38f8c63df7dbf84db7ec4a6e6fbbd8d19dca3b980efad18585c46f04b26f9:mostr",
"wss://relay.ditto.pub"
]
],
"content": "“Until now, Nichols wrote, ‘[a] world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was…the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies.’ Now that alliance exists. Nichols laments that Trump and Putin have fulfilled the dreams of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and the Cold War leaders who followed him, humbling and humiliating the mighty United States.”\n\n#HeatherCoxRichardson\n\nhttps://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18-2026",
"sig": "b3ba9f2890de3364aa10a5e33874d92101d73c3f0553de1941aea1fcfc96fe3d10e85781202874f308490eb7e3f5b0912c9f13e9868377d163e02e02aec5d3be"
}