Regan would have sat down with Putin in a boat house and talked not just about problems,but how to solve them. Not something this administration could possible do(not after the clown show that was the 8th and final time Biden spoke to Putin in person,when Biden spoke like it was the 1980s. June of 2021).Reagan would have understood that Russia is not going for Ukraine, but rather what is on the other side of Ukraine, that being Poland and Romania - both NATO members.
IF Russia is allowed to get through Ukraine we will have a direct conflict with Russia and then there will be a direct nuclear threat to the continental United States.
This does not mean that I disagree with the China issue, except to say that they are not a military threat in any real way. We should remove their most favored trade status and disconnect trade from them, the sooner the better, but to ignore the Russian threat represents a perilous misjudgement.
Regards,
Doug
Even Bush meet with Putin. Less you forget he admired the man and even spoke with him at a high school in Texas.
Clinton meet with Putin. Not just any meeting either, he flew in and went to Putin's house when he was not even president of Russia and again meet him multiple times after Putin was president.
Obama...meet with Putin privately at the G20 in 2014 and again in 2015.
Trump meet with Putin.
The real problem is the leadership we have now and the fact we overthrew an elected Ukrainian government to install our own in 2014. None of what is happening now would have without Victoria Nuland and a maiden revolution. She is now the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Of course after her fk the EU(over who we choose to lead Ukraine during/after the revolution) you can guess how welcome she is in Europe.
The Putin bad message really did not start in the US media or US foreign policy until after the maiden revolution in Ukraine in 2014. Not even during the Georgian war(where he had support of the US in defeating terrorism, for the most part). Since though it has been a virtual wall of Putin bad,Russia bad...commonly call Russia,Russia,Russia by the right until recently.
You ignore the history and you follow the narrative.
*side note China has more fixed nuke silos than we do.
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