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1. Story of Mr. X "architect of #ColdWar"
The advises of Mr X to The US will
always be helpful to us from #JNU to #Pakistan to #Kathua

This is the STORY of a person #Lost_in_the_pages_of_history

I PROMISE by the end of the #RightFactsThread you'll have #Goosebumps ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™
2. This person is known to the world as #Mr_X for decades thanks to an ARTICLE he wrote in @ForeignAffairs (july 1946) with the pen name of Mr. X

His real name was #GeorgeKenan the US ambassador to erstwhile Soviet Union in 1940s

The article was an excerpt of his LONG TELEGRAM
3. The #LongTelegram as it's known was shot back in The US gave 2 things:

๐Ÿ‘‰ Geopolitical reality post WWII
๐Ÿ‘‰he proposed that the US should adopt the strategy of โ€œcontainmentโ€โ€”not conventional warfare

His other advises in his #LongTelegram r directly relevant in Indian context
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