Posted on 01/04/2024 10:33:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
As the fighting in Ukraine continues, some representatives in Congress, primarily Republicans, oppose additional financial and military support for Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s ongoing invasion.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he has reservations about continued support for Ukraine because he believes that there is inadequate oversight on how the aid is spent and sees no strategy to win. Johnson also argued that America’s border problems should take priority, a preference shared by many on the right. Congress will take up the issue again this year, but the future of American aid to Ukraine is in serious doubt.
Four decades ago, a Republican president supported a different victim of Russian aggression, in a situation similar to the one that the United States faces today. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, President Jimmy Carter offered limited aid to the Afghani resistance. But it was a Republican who championed and dramatically expanded funding for the Afghan mujahedeen during most of the nine-year effort to compel a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. That leader was the icon of the GOP, Ronald Reagan.
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So, the hypothetical on the table is about a post Soviet Union environment.
By the way, as for the Chiefs vs Steelers, the answer all depends on what rules.
Rules of the 70’s, the Steelers would put the KC players in the hospital
Rules of the 2020’s, the Pittsburg Steelers would all be ejected from the game for unnecessary violence.
Which is similar to the rules of the World today, vs the rules of the world in the 80’s
You can never ever get a good answer.
I know this much, if we fought the Vietnam war like WWII, then the North Vietnamese would have been wiped out the day after we officially sent troops in.
Stigler is a war college professor who was graduating high school when Reagan left office. Now he is wanting to explain to the world that Reagan was a war leader who despised Russia.
You see, that helps the professor’s job security.
And the sudden collapse of democracy. We know they mean mobocracy using as many non citizens as possible.
I am just always shocked how people just follow along. Of course after 85% of Americans took the vax as soon as humanly possible, I shouldn’t be.
A bogus fantasy!
If Reagan (or Trump) was President, the russkies would never have invaded Ukraine...
More stupid “what would Reagan do” projection.
In Reagan’s time, it was not “Russia”, but the “Soviet Union”.
Also, in that time, the Ukraine was under Soviet directorship, and therefore, none of America’s business.
Ronald Reagan would not have gotten the US involved.
Russia can have Ukraine. They deserve each other, and Europe deserves them.
Tippecanoe and Ukraine too.
Has there ever been a CIA-instigated coup, including the 2020 election coup that was ever beneficial to U.S. Citizens?
Only a matter of time before George Washington and Jesus get invoked on the Ukraine matter.....
“””””In Reagan’s time, it was not “Russia”, but the “Soviet Union”.”””””
Reagan and everyone else on earth knew that the USSR was Russia, and that is why Reagan was devoted to freeing the oppressed members of the Russian empire.
Look at what happened as Reagan weakened Russia’s power over the conquered, they peeled off and ran, they escaped.
And Reagan must be rolling over in his grave after seeing the United States invade Afghanistan and then get its ass kicked out of there 20 years later.
Now our problem is how to untangle ourselves from this mess.
And defend our own border! That, I'm sure Reagan would do.
“He wouldn’t have instigated the war to begin with.”
Putin instigated the war. The opppsing view is Putin’s myths and excuses.
“One problem. When Reagan was President, Ukraine WAS Russia”
That’s Rusian propganda. Ukraine was a constituent member state within the Soviet Union, it was not Russia.
“U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, gave assurances to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand into Eastern Europe following the reunification of Germany in 1990.”
Myth. Even Gorby said so.
Exactly.
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