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Past meets present: The legacy of Cox vs. Harding or Harris vs. Trump
When we diasporan Armenians, or specifically descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors, hear Donald Trump say, “You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?...No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay,” to European nations that face Russian aggression, or, “They’re immensely wealthy…I donâ€
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A succinct point was the isolationism of Congress which forbade the USA to join the league of nations which Woodrow Wilson had been instrumental in establishing and the embarrassment to him that he was unable get the USA to join something which he had helped to found with the intention of the USA participating. This tragedy of the league being curtailed in its scope then allowed the Bolsheviks in collusion with the Turkish Kemalists to truncate and subjugate independent Armenia causing another spate of killing and refugees and the reduced boundaries which it didn’t demarcate and now sanctified by international protocols that truncated post Soviet Armenia has to accept as binding.