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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Nonsense, as usual from you.
In the Cold War, President Reagan took no action when Solidarity was crushed in Poland in 1981.
He wouldn’t have gotten this country involved in the UKE proxy war.
President Reagan killed the Soviet Union and you’re still mad. Lol!
Enjoy your “Victory” parade next week!
Zeepers also chasing away FR donors...
One can see there is a sustained, uniform effort from the various Zeeper propagandists here on FR to turn Reagan into a 2024 anti-Russian neocon. It always follows the same form.
It smacks of a deep-state / DHS marketing campaign
President Reagan killed the Soviet Union. Live with it.
Be mad at President Nixon, too.
Excerpts from Richard Nixon’s Beyond Peace, published in 1994
https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2022/02/richard-nixon-russia/
The Soviet Union died. And was resurrected in Washington DC
Tell Putin to bury Lenin’s corpse.
Be mad at President Nixon, too.
Excerpts from Richard Nixon’s Beyond Peace, published in 1994
https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2022/02/richard-nixon-russia/
3rd Battle of Urozhaine | RUAF Concentrates Over 35 Thousand Troops Near Kharkiv
So Close. Ukrainian Units Barely Escaped The Encirclement. Russia’s Multiple Advances.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Not our business.
Russia advances 50 yards in bombed out Ukrainian village! Putin’s Mongol horde stronk as bull!
And never once even ALLUDED to “freeing” a Soviet Republic.
He was smart enough to allow Russia their historical sphere of influence. And was most CERTAINLY smart enough to know Ukraine was off limits.
It’s the stupid people in charge of the west now that believe Ukraine can be “freed” from Russian domination and dominion.
The entire world will burn before that happens.
Stop abusing Reagan's corpse.
Before 1991.
Ukraine stopped being a Soviet Republic and became independent.
The Russians recognized that the Ukrainians were free. I think Ronald Reagan would have recognized Ukraine's sovereignty if he was the POTUS today
Apparently neither ROBERT PITTENGER or OLEG DUNDA are serving with the Ukraine the Ukraine army. Just like the REMF Zeepers.
Cowards all.
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