If George H.W. Bush won reelection in 1992, I believe he would have done more to help the Russians. Marshall Plan for the former Soviet Union or something.
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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Russia would not have moved on Uk with either of them in charge. WHY? Because both of them would have demanded that Uk honor the Minsk agreement they agreed to — before BeijingBiden met with his little toad Zelynsky to reject the agreement. WHY? ‘Cause a war means more $$$ to skim and no stoppage of Uk’s 2nd most profitable industry — sex trafficking.
1. Ukraine isn't Nazi.
2. Yes, Reagan probably would try to help Ukraine.
Article should be about China, not russia.
Here comes the Putin worshippers...lol
The authors are charlatans.
Reagan would not have intervened at all.
Reagan would have threatened to use nuclear weapons on the Russians. Then he’ll send 101st airborne to defend Kyiv just as the Russians were massing in Belarus just before the invasion.
He did call the Soviet Union the "Evil Empire".
Reagan wouldn’t have orchestrated a coup in Ukraine and militarized it’s border thus prompting the Russian invasion.
Or we could have worked with Gorbachev to help Russia transition into a European style democracy rather than send over free market fanatics who inadvertently handed over all of Russia’s resources to the oligarchs.
That was the Commie Soviet Union, not the same thing.
No. But Putin is trying to reestablish the Russian Empire by annexing Belarus and conquering Ukraine.
By acting Honorably and being Trustworthy.
They would have jailed HomoNazi Grifter Zelensky for life, and Putin would have had no cause to defend helpless Russians.
President Reagan is still kryptonite to the Russophiles.
A bunch of “what if “ , the Hopium supply is running low !! 😂
If George H.W. Bush won reelection in 1992, I believe he would have done more to help the Russians. Marshall Plan for the former Soviet Union or something.
Richard Nixon on Russia
Excerpts from Richard Nixon’s Beyond Peace, published in 1994
https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2022/02/richard-nixon-russia/
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