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We Need to Take a Tougher Line With Putin
Newsweek ^
| November 1, 2015
| William Courtney and Donald Jensen
Posted on 11/01/2015 6:58:46 AM PST by Navy Patriot
In responding to Russian thrusts in Ukraine and Syria, the West has relied on economic sanctions or conceded initiative to Moscow. Experience shows that direct measures-ones that target troublesome behavior-are more likely to be effective.
In Ukraine and Syria, the West seems less sure of its aims and less committed to achieving them. In contrast, Russia appears to have clearer goals, cares more about outcomes, lies closer to the contested theater and acts with dispatch.
This was also true when the USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979. President Jimmy Carter responded by seeking to organize a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, but only some Western allies went along. Carter halted the export of U.S. grain to the USSR, but U.S. farmers were outraged and a year later President Reagan canceled the embargo.
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TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
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Reagan also won the Cold War without firing a shot and enabled Russia to move away from Communism, while Carter created the prototype for Fascist Islamic terrorism ISIS, and the World Caliphate.
Yeah, let's go with Carter!
To: Navy Patriot
Our dashing new Prime Minister is going to “look Putin in the eye”. The world’s worries are over. You’re welcome.
To: Navy Patriot
NEOKHANNN!
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:04:08 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: JudyinCanada
Will he see Putin’s soul?
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:06:59 AM PST
by
donozark
(Herbicides improve visibility.)
To: Navy Patriot
First, we need to take a tougher line with Obama.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:07:32 AM PST
by
MortMan
(The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
To: Navy Patriot
Why fight Putin? At least he’s standing up to the Islamic crazies, the global-warming nuts, and the depraved promoters of the homosexual agenda. Unlike the craven and sicko leaders here in the West, who embrace their own cultural suicide.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:07:46 AM PST
by
greene66
To: MortMan
You beat me to it. We need to take a tougher line with that evil Muslim traitor, Obama, who always favors the wrong side.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:11:45 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Navy Patriot
Yeah, we better stop Russia before its too late...
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:11:47 AM PST
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: Navy Patriot
Get tougher with Putin. Right. Instead of throwing marchmellows at him, we will now throw cupcakes!
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:14:26 AM PST
by
GoldenPup
To: Navy Patriot
“In responding to Russian thrusts in Ukraine and Syria...”
“Thrusts” responding to an EU run Nazi putsch in the first case, and to a sunni jihadi genocide that literally mimicks Nazi Germany in the second case.
I think we should have an alliance rather than a response. Our country supports the most depraved actors around the world now. This is not the 1980s where we were the good guys.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:18:39 AM PST
by
DesertRhino
("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
To: Navy Patriot
Who?
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:19:37 AM PST
by
Bon mots
To: JudyinCanada
Our dashing new Prime Minister is going to "look Putin in the eye". The world's worries are over. You're welcome.He better have quite a stare, Russia has opened the Northern Passage, modernized it's Northern bases, and Icebreaker Fleet, and claimed the Arctic as Russian territory.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:23:42 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(America, a Rule of Mob nation)
To: Navy Patriot
Putin is killing the right folks. We need to send him more ammo.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:25:10 AM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(Say what you will about The Donald, but he has all the right enemies.)
To: 1rudeboy
Alert to the Homofascista Islamonazi Maiden shill pinglist.
Newsweek needs help!
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:28:12 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(America, a Rule of Mob nation)
To: mac_truck
I looked for one named “Hussein” but didn’t find him.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:30:20 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(America, a Rule of Mob nation)
To: DesertRhino
I think we should have an alliance rather than a response. That will go down in history as a significant lost opportunity: A U.S.-Russian alliance against radical islam (and maybe against China, as well).
And that alliance probably could have been done when Yeltsin was the Russian president. But the U.S. decided to embark upon a program of petty bullying and lecturing instead.
But Putin as an ally? What do you do when your "ally" decides he wants to occupy Estonia (something Yeltsin had no interest in)?
As of now, I say just leave Putin alone. Don't get in his way, and maybe even give him a little help, in regards to Syria.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:33:07 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: isthisnickcool
Putin is killing the right folks. We need to send him more ammoWe do, his guys just pick it up where the Syrian "rebels" dropped it when they ran away to Germany.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:34:48 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(America, a Rule of Mob nation)
To: Navy Patriot
The Cold War is over. Pity so many in the political class cannot grasp that.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:47:55 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
To: Navy Patriot; JudyinCanada
I think Canada still has a destroyer so Russia better watch out. I double checked that and yes Canada does indeed still have a destroyer, the HMCS Iroquois. However she is to be decommission sometime this year.
Hmmm, Russia has an aircraft carrier, 6 cruisers and 16 destroyers.
Maybe Canada better rethink that getting tuff with Russia thing.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:48:51 AM PST
by
jpsb
(Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto von Bismarck)
To: Leaning Right
"And that alliance probably could have been done when Yeltsin was the Russian president. But the U.S. decided to embark upon a program of petty bullying and lecturing instead." Exactly correct and Bush 1 is to blame for that. Clinton made things even worse by siding with the Muslims in Kosovo. Recovering from those two huge mistakes will not be easy to do.
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posted on
11/01/2015 7:54:27 AM PST
by
jpsb
(Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto von Bismarck)
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