Posted on 05/03/2024 7:35:04 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A bipartisan majority in the U.S. Congress recently took the noble and necessary action of devoting a fresh round of aid worth $61 billion to Ukraine. Now that the U.S. has stepped up militarily, the West needs to ramp up a line of effort that has been lacking in its Ukraine strategy: intensifying economic warfare. It’s a tactic that President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would have embraced — and one that will undermine the Russian military and the Vladimir Putin’s regime’s stability.
Reagan came into office perceiving the Soviet Union’s economic weakness, and resolved early in his presidency to use American economic power to bring down the USSR. In 1982, National Security Advisor William Clark said in a speech, “We must force our principal adversary, the Soviet Union, to bear the brunt of its economic shortcomings.”
Later, the seminal National Security Decision Directive-75 of 1983 articulated the need “to seek to minimize the potential for Soviet exercise of reverse leverage on Western countries based on trade, energy supply, and financial relationships.” Hence, throughout the 1980s the vast majority of U.S-Soviet trade was dominated by agricultural products. American machinery and equipment composed 13 percent of U.S-Soviet trade totals in 1981, but fell to 5 percent by 1985.
Today, the Western war effort is hamstrung by Kremlin leverage over the West in the form of continued oil and gas exports.
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Sadly, many Ukraine-supporting democracies have not done enough to wean themselves from Russian energy — a work Donald Trump started as president by sanctioning the now-defunct Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Hungary, Slovakia, Belgium, Czechia and France were the largest buyers of Russian fossil fuels within the European Union in February 2024.
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Yeah, they want as bad or worse being under the influence of the tyrannical and immoral globalists of the WEF.
Huh?
Those countries were part of Russia prior to the USSR.
The ones most angry about the collapse of the USSR are the Cold War Nostalgists.
They will never forgive the Russians for abandoning Communism, and becoming Christian.
Right ou are. I remember honest politicians too.
“Ukraine’s refusal to be annexed by RuSSia is angering Putin and his worshippers.
RuSSian propaganda should NEVER be welcome on a conservative site.”
TRUTH!
“Ukraine’s refusal to be annexed by RuSSia is angering Putin and his worshippers.
RuSSian propaganda should NEVER be welcome on a conservative site.”
TRUTH!
Joe Biden is no Ronald Reagan.
>>>>RuSSian propaganda should NEVER be welcome on a conservative site.”
TRUTH!<<<<
Why not?
You been posting Ukrainian propaganda on this site 24/7 for 2+ years now.
“RuSSian propaganda should NEVER be welcome on a conservative site.”
Absolutely true.
Appreciate your comment. :)
That’s OK, the Russians can still put him in prison for life.
>>>>RuSSian propaganda should NEVER be welcome on a conservative site.”
TRUTH!<<<<
No wonder you like Biden and the UniParty so much, mommy:
“U.S. Government Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Spread Propaganda And Silence American Critics”
Right? These people and their indignation are laughable.
How about NO propaganda? Restore the integrity of this site.
I do see the occasional Russian propaganda piece here, but the site is overwhelmingly polluted with Ukrainian propaganda all day and night long.
>>>>Restore the integrity of this site.<<<<
Zeepers wouldn’t know integrity if it walked up and bit them on the arse.
>>>>Oh, dear. Looks like someone “took a fence” on Post 70.<<<<
The overly sensitive sweat hog is at it again.
Biden Puffer
101st is a rather puny unit for a war like this.
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