Posted on 11/24/2008 9:50:08 PM PST by Chet 99
Was not a Paul supporter.. MAC all the way. I was also 100% for Reagan..and he did a great job of bringing the USSR to its knees.. what you seem to forget is that the USSR ceased to exist.. and we HAD an opportunity to finish what RR started and have as normal a relationship with Russia as is possible. However we had our head where the sun don’t shine and as a result we ended up where we are now. (I am not alone in this assessment) Russia might not have done some of the things they have done in the last decade had we handled them properly in the FIRST decade after the breakup. This old Western Kentucky boy has also been there on multiple occasions, have Russian friends, and speak the language so I can speak with some authority about how they think and react. The Russian people are just like Americans, they work hard, are very nice and have idiots running the country...kinda the same way we are. “Ike’s words were never more true”
Russia has been an expansionist empire for the last 1,000 years. They would like to bring Eastern Europe under their control again. Don’t expect them to change. I and my family have known Russians too — they are nice people as individuals, but collectively, they have an empire mentality.
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