Retarded. Back then we were the world’s creditor nation. Now we are the biggest debtor in all of human history. And then the USSR was the aggressor, today it’s us.
This is the neocon Uke EU Atlantic Council trying to co-opt Ronald Reagan and pretend he would approve of their war mongering and globalism.
Anything from the Atlantic Council or Georgetown is pure deep-state bull-puckey
When Reagan was President, the USA had little debt, it was still a global creditor, it had all the world’s high-tech in its control, and it could still be considered a Christian nation. All of that has gone 180 degrees in the opposite direction.
Our adversary was a bloated, ossified, debt-racked marxist country, run by an ideologue deep-state, which appointed life-long, corrupt, senile party hacks to leadership, and which had spent itself funding wars and revolution around the world.
Sorry to tell you all, but WE are the bloated (Neo) marxists now - and if Reagan were alive today, he would agree.
Trump is the direction we need today. America first, focus on our needs, and be friendly traders with the world, not seeking hostility. Opening our doors to them based upon their behavior.
Neocon Atlantic Council needs to die off and quit pretending they carry the torch of Reagan forward.
Atlantic Council liberals who hated Reagan at the time are now trying to use Reagan to attach NeoCon Globalism to America First.
Trump-Reagan Fusion Can Win the New Cold War
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“New Cold War”?
Looks like the Neo-Cons are always dreaming up some boogeyman for us to fight. Foreign wars are nice distractions from problems at home.
Make America Great Again!
Amazing... the entire article was BS.
It was a love letter to globalism and progressives. And it ended with a suggestion that we transition away from fossil fuels and “expand pathways for immigration” to help us in our “struggle against China”. It was a tour de force in neoconism.
It also trotted out alliances, and the old saw “Reagan’s defense build-up, which hastened the Soviet Union’s demise, is a classic case of achieving peace by preparing for war.”
That is very simplistic. Star Wars, or our 80s military buildup didn’t didn’t end the USSR. It was an element but a small one. John Paul II was a primary cause by inspiring Poland. By the 80s, the USSR was staggering ossified old man on the verge of collapse. The 80s in Europe and America were flat out fun. The music, MTV, blue jeans, etc. All of that got through the wall and everyone there was pretty well aware of how the other half of the planet lived.
Our culture and their people’s desire for it did as much as the 80s military buildup.
Reagan creating the 80s quality of life in the west probably did more. And the Helsinki Agreement on refusenik immigration was also huge.
Our culture defeated them. This article thinks more alliances and military build ups is what we need today.
What they need to see is that our culture is in the sewer now and is not superior.
THAT is what needs to be addressed. End the feminism, the faggotry, the wokeism, the racism, and the state atheism. Then we can face the world.
“Matthew Kroenig is an American political scientist and national security strategist currently serving as vice president of the Atlantic Council”
And was born around 78 or 79. Just who we need he hear an assaholic lecture on Reagan from.
I do not think Trump is real peacenik.
He won the war on ISIS and did not pulled out of Afghanistan.
I do not think he pulled out of any country?! (Name some if you know).
What he did is that he really wanted to win!
The worst problem of US foreign involvements is not going there, but failing to fight to win!
Even in Korea and definitely since Vietnam, we are fighting to win the soul of them.
That means we are limiting ourselves to all kind of rules, whose basically guarantee we will be stuck there for a long while and eventually loose.
Trump fight against ISIS was finally fought the way we should fight all the time. Just go there, destroy them, forget mosques, cemeteries or civilians.
Destroy them, place some puppet government there and get out!
I know a lot of Vietnam veterans who are pissed off about fighting with one hand tied behind their backs!
The article is two state department, three atlantic council, two Harvards and a Cornell, one Knights Of Malta, investment banker. One was making mudpies during Reagan.
This is the most globalist bunch possible. And they dare speak Reagan’s name.
This is some silly-assed BS