Posted on 02/17/2023 1:50:27 PM PST by MeganC
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Former President Nixon Predicts Modern Day Russia and Its Imperialist Behaviors towards Europe in 1994.
If memory serves me correctly, wasn’t it Nixon who helped bring China into the modern age? Before his visit with Kissinger, they were riding around in rickshaws and wearing rags.
All to rehabilitate his tarnished Watergate image, and lack of a statesman like reputation.
Nixon brilliance? No thanks.
Nixon had a lot of faults, and they were all personal. But he knew foreign affairs better than any of his predecessors, even Reagan.
His rapprochement with China and the USSR was meant to play one off the other.
He didn't bring China into the modern age, he just made the U.S. dependent on China.
So you agree with Nixon wanting to ban al handguns in the United States, except for the military and the police?
But he knew foreign affairs better than any of his predecessors, even Reagan.
So you agree with Nixon making the U.S. reliant on China and rescuing them?
Nixon was long gone when that happened!
You can’t blame those bad decisions on Nixon.
You are wholly ignorant about why he had the rapprochements with China AND Russia: It was to play one off the other; a carrot and stick approach, especially with China. Nixon was a committed anti-communist, and he believed that having a division between the two major communist nations would serve the interests of the Unites States. And he was right.
I still remember a college professor who was absolutely outraged at the "rehabilitation" that Nixon received immediately after he died. "Why is everyone saying nice things about Richard Nixon?!?!?" he angrily sputtered.
Yes, I can. Nixon was the one who got the U.N. to stop recognizing Taiwan, and start recognizing PRC China. It was absolutely Nixon. Of course, it continued to increase out of office, , but he set it up. The U.S. didn't even have relations with them before Nixon. He sold out U.S. workers and shipped their jobs to China. He didn't everything in his power to try to ban handgun ownership by the public.
I meant to say CUCCESSORS, not predecessors.
I meant to say SUCCESSORS, not predecessors.
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Nixon was a committed anti-communist,
In the 40s and 50s he was, not in the 70s.
“So you agree with Nixon wanting to ban al handguns in the United States, except for the military and the police?”
Hyperbole much? Nixon never proposed a ban on all handguns. He did, though, say that Congress should pass a law restricting “Saturday Night Specials.” He may have PERSONALLY wanted a total ban on handguns (hence my comment that his faults were PERSONAL), but he was pragmatic enough to know it would never come to pass.
I also didn’t agree with him creating the EPA.
“So you agree with Nixon making the U.S. reliant on China and rescuing them?”
That wasn’t Nixon. Nixon’s idea was not to turn China into a manufacturing hub at the expense of the U.S., but to encourage the creation of a Chinese middle class which would get rid of the Communist Party. What screwed the pooch was Bill Clinton and bringing China into the WTO.
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Don't forget his butt buddy GHWB, who was the best friend the ChiComs ever had.
You are correct, Nixon made the fatal mistake of allowing Communist China to access an International market and accumulate cash using Communist Economic Forced Labor Policy.
Communist China used that to suppress manufacturing and Foreign Trade of Capitalistic Nations and Fairly Paid Labor.
Communist China used the cash to bribe Capitalistic Nation's Politicians and Bureaucrats like Bill Clinton and the DNC with cash "Contributions" from Charlie Trie.
Communist China bought the Socialist Left and Deep Swamp in America, and that's why we are screwed today.
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The communists did away with rickshaws.
The impression of the time were vast numbers of bicycles.
It was a very poor country, and still had famines.
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