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To counter Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, look to Ronald Reagan
Washington Post ^ | 05/18/2022 | Marc A. Thiessen

Posted on 05/19/2022 6:08:04 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

RANCHO DEL CIELO, Calif. — Arriving at the Reagan Ranch in California’s Santa Ynez mountains is like stepping back in time to the 1980s. The 40th president’s Western White House is privately owned by the Young America’s Foundation, which invites high school and college students to visit and learn about the Reagan legacy. There are no exhibits or velvet ropes. Everything remains as it was when the Reagans lived here, from Nancy’s handwritten instructions for operating the TV remote to the jar of “Brim” freeze-dried coffee in the kitchen.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aggression; evilempire; putins; reagan; ukraine
Biden the diaper dummy can't handle it
1 posted on 05/19/2022 6:08:04 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you want to spend 40 billion dollars, even if you think it is a good cause, you have to cut spending somewhere else. Reagan did not have the economic problems we have today. We weren’t 3 trillion in debt. Rand Paul is an isolationist, but he is correct on spending.


2 posted on 05/19/2022 6:52:39 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Hope coming from Florida)
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To: Pirate Ragnar

Nothing wrong with being an Isolationist.

Much better than being a Neo-Con or Globalist, or Establishment type.


3 posted on 05/19/2022 6:57:16 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

McConnell is barely a Republican and has repeatedly trash talked Trump and rolled out the red carpet for Dems like an assistant Democrat. Now he attacks Rand Paul as being an isolationist when Paul aligns with the Founders more than McConnell does.,

Rand Paul wanting oversight over 40 billion doesn’t make him an isolationist.

Aligning with the Founders, who repeatedly argued against long-term entanglements with foreign powers, isn’t being an isolationist.

The Founders argued in favor of alliances that were short-term, issue-specific, and in our interests, not unending warmongering with NATO which has went rogue in that it bowed before Odumba, as an example among other warmongering examples, and offensively attacked Libya when no NATO members were threatened and on unproven allegations that Gaddafi was going to kill 10k of his own people.


4 posted on 05/19/2022 7:02:31 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: SoConPubbie

“Nothing wrong with being an Isolationist.”

Depends on how far you want to take it, doesn’t it?

If you’re a real isolationist that means you wouldn’t want any foreign allies, since they could drag you into foreign wars. And without any foreign allies, the country would be vulnerable to a hostile foreign alliance. So, I’d say that is something wrong with a strict adherence to isolationism.


5 posted on 05/19/2022 7:22:09 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Its All Over Except ...

McConnell is Uniparty


6 posted on 05/19/2022 7:25:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Or, an analogy referring to a story posted earlier today,

McConnell is as Republican as ELCA is Lutheran


7 posted on 05/19/2022 7:26:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Isolationist? Ain’t it funny how you feel when you’re finding out it’s real.


8 posted on 05/19/2022 7:59:29 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sickening article. Bringing up Reagan to support their corruption, bloated Fed.gov spending, and war-mongering.


9 posted on 05/19/2022 10:27:35 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Beware of the Washington Post giving advice.


10 posted on 05/19/2022 10:41:35 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: PGR88

The Wapo hated Reagan.


11 posted on 05/19/2022 11:40:52 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Pirate Ragnar
If you want to spend 40 billion dollars, even if you think it is a good cause, you have to cut spending somewhere else.

Agreed. But we are not doing that so it's just monopoly money. That's why we are seeing serious intlation.

12 posted on 05/19/2022 11:45:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think Zelenskyy is following Reagan’s hostile engagement advice to a T:

“We win; they lose.”


13 posted on 05/20/2022 8:03:42 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Government is the problem." --Milton Friedman)
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