1950-1980: Efforts to win the Cold War decades later, such as increasing education for gifted children.
US support for the White Army against the Bolsheviks predates those measures. Still, I’d be hesitant to consider that prescient since it was a self-fulfilling prediction to some extent.
I don’t know. They were anti-communist, so I guess it was an immediate impulse. At the same time, they also probably knew they wouldn’t get along with a communist country in the future. Either way, I don’t think Cold War actions in the 1950s count as prescient since the relationship had soured long ago.
If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Neither of them thinks anything of their pledged word.
US support for the White Army against the Bolsheviks predates those measures. Still, I’d be hesitant to consider that prescient since it was a self-fulfilling prediction to some extent.
Was this based on an anticipation of things happening 10+ years later?
I don’t know. They were anti-communist, so I guess it was an immediate impulse. At the same time, they also probably knew they wouldn’t get along with a communist country in the future. Either way, I don’t think Cold War actions in the 1950s count as prescient since the relationship had soured long ago.
Truman http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,815031,00.html