TLIAPOT: Kingfinch

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Lost Freeway

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TRH said:
Our buddy the Kingfinch might not be so credulous as Eisenhower or Nixon were.
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Every US president during the Cold War era was willing to back autocratic regimes as long as they toed the line on anti-communism. I don't see why Finch would be any different.
 

TRH

Lost Freeway said:
Every US president during the Cold War era was willing to back autocratic regimes as long as they toed the line on anti-communism. I don't see why Finch would be any different.
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fjihr said:
He may not make it as apparent as other presidents if only because he's a populist, but he'll still support dictatorships.
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I think the concern for him would be less that they're a dictatorship, and more that they're undercutting American diplomacy that I assume he supports. Being an anti-communist junta is one thing, but I imagine he'd prefer they not go off the reservation in other ways as well.
 

Upton_Sinclair

Given that Finch has generally advocating withdrawal from the Middle East, I can't see how he'd actively break his campaign promises and set terrible precedent (particularly considering how his administration seems to rather clearly not be the usual order of the day in the Middle East), but on the other hand, it's Israel. I'd imagine the USSR would almost certainly attempt to overthrow the military junta and this would probably function as a double-edged sword for the Israeli left, as it'd provide much-needed support but could result in American support for the Israeli Government (although the main concern would probably less be American support but the degree of American support).
 
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I'm sorry, this timeline will have to go on hiatus for a while. I simply don't have the motivation to continue it. Hopefully I can return to it later.

In the meantime, I've added threadmarks!
 
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