U.S. tells Moscow : " Putin to pull back from Ukraine or face painful sanctions". if Moscow invades Ukraine again, will Biden do what R. Reagan did ?

[Litwin]

The United States urged Russia on Wednesday to pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border, warning that a Russian invasion would provoke sanctions that would hit Moscow harder than any imposed until now.

"We don't know whether President (Vladimir) Putin has made the decision to invade. We do know that he is putting in place the capacity to do so on short order should he so decide," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.


"Should Russia follow the path of confrontation, when it comes to Ukraine, we've made clear that we will respond resolutely, including with a range of high impact economic measures that we have refrained from pursuing in the past."

U.S. tells Russia to pull back from Ukraine or face painful sanctions

The United States urged Russia on Wednesday to pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border, warning that a Russian invasion would provoke sanctions that would hit Moscow harder than any imposed until now.

www.reuters.com

Its clear like a sunny day that USA sanctions from the hell can bring Putin´s empire down , if Moscow invades Ukraine again, will Biden do what R. Reagan did to ussr&Marxism ?

 

[Confederate Soldier]

No amount of sanctions can sink Putins economy. They are one of the worlds leaders in trade and pretty much everything else.


Just because you hate Russia so much shouldn't blind your eyes to reality.

 

[Moonglow]

The United States urged Russia on Wednesday to pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border, warning that a Russian invasion would provoke sanctions that would hit Moscow harder than any imposed until now.

"We don't know whether President (Vladimir) Putin has made the decision to invade. We do know that he is putting in place the capacity to do so on short order should he so decide," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.


"Should Russia follow the path of confrontation, when it comes to Ukraine, we've made clear that we will respond resolutely, including with a range of high impact economic measures that we have refrained from pursuing in the past."

U.S. tells Russia to pull back from Ukraine or face painful sanctions

The United States urged Russia on Wednesday to pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border, warning that a Russian invasion would provoke sanctions that would hit Moscow harder than any imposed until now.

www.reuters.com

Its clear like a sunny day that USA sanctions from the hell can bring Putin´s empire down , if Moscow invades Ukraine again, will Biden do what R. Reagan did to ussr&Marxism ?

Reagan was unable to stop the Soviets in their actions nor was Reagan able to cause the USSR to confront it's own reformation.

 

[Donald H]

Good news that America is threatening more sanctions.

There's a lot more in that statement than is obvious and meets the eye!
It's saying clearly that America understands that it's only power that can apply to Russia is limited to just that.

So we're expected to believe that there are still some economic pressures to be applied that can get Putin's notice?

Making it even more crystal clear that Russia/Putin is already madly promoting Trump and another coup attempt.

 

[Moonglow]

Putin threatened NATO, not just the USA.

 

[Donald H]

Putin threatened NATO, not just the USA.

That was consistent with his sidling up to Putin for various reasons most of us already understand.

The dire consequences are so serious that it led me to believe that Milley is willing to fall on his sword.

 

[Litwin]

Reagan was unable to stop the Soviets in their actions nor was Reagan able to cause the USSR to confront it's own reformation.

Reagan determined that the time had come for a new strategy: “We win and they lose.”

In his first presidential press conference, Reagan stunned official Washington by denouncing the Soviet leadership as still dedicated to “world revolution and a one-world Socialist-Communist state.” As he wrote in his official autobiography, “I decided we had to send as powerful a message as we could to the Russians that we weren’t going to stand by anymore while they armed and financed terrorists and subverted democratic governments.”

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Based on intelligence reports and his life-long study, Reagan concluded that Soviet communism was cracking and ready to crumble. In May 1982 he went public with his assessment of the Soviets’ systemic weakness. Speaking at his alma mater, Eureka College, he declared that the Soviet empire was “faltering because rigid centralized control has destroyed incentives for innovation, efficiency, and individual achievement.”

One month later, in a prophetic address to the British Parliament at Westminster, Reagan said that the Soviet Union was gripped by a “great revolutionary crisis” and that a “global campaign for freedom” would ultimately prevail. He boldly predicted that “the march of freedom and democracy … will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.”

He directed his top national security team to develop a plan to end the Cold War by winning it. The result was a series of top-secret national security decision directives that:

• Committed the U.S. to “neutralizing” Soviet control over Eastern Europe and authorized covert action and other means to support anti-Soviet groups in the region.
• Adopted a policy of attacking a “strategic triad” of critical resources –financial credits, high technology and natural gas – essential to Soviet economic survival. Author-economist Roger Robinson said the directive was tantamount to “a secret declaration of economic war on the Soviet Union.”
• Determined that, rather than coexist with the Soviet system, the U.S. would seek to change it fundamentally. The language, drafted by Harvard historian Richard Pipes, was unequivocal: America intended to “roll back” Soviet influence at every opportunity.

How Ronald Reagan won the Cold War

Whatever its early success, the policy of containment clearly no longer worked. Reagan determined that the time had come for a new strategy: “We win and they lose.”

thehill.com

 

[Moonglow]

Reagan determined that the time had come for a new strategy: “We win and they lose.”

In his first presidential press conference, Reagan stunned official Washington by denouncing the Soviet leadership as still dedicated to “world revolution and a one-world Socialist-Communist state.” As he wrote in his official autobiography, “I decided we had to send as powerful a message as we could to the Russians that we weren’t going to stand by anymore while they armed and financed terrorists and subverted democratic governments.”

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Based on intelligence reports and his life-long study, Reagan concluded that Soviet communism was cracking and ready to crumble. In May 1982 he went public with his assessment of the Soviets’ systemic weakness. Speaking at his alma mater, Eureka College, he declared that the Soviet empire was “faltering because rigid centralized control has destroyed incentives for innovation, efficiency, and individual achievement.”

One month later, in a prophetic address to the British Parliament at Westminster, Reagan said that the Soviet Union was gripped by a “great revolutionary crisis” and that a “global campaign for freedom” would ultimately prevail. He boldly predicted that “the march of freedom and democracy … will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.”

He directed his top national security team to develop a plan to end the Cold War by winning it. The result was a series of top-secret national security decision directives that:

• Committed the U.S. to “neutralizing” Soviet control over Eastern Europe and authorized covert action and other means to support anti-Soviet groups in the region.
• Adopted a policy of attacking a “strategic triad” of critical resources –financial credits, high technology and natural gas – essential to Soviet economic survival. Author-economist Roger Robinson said the directive was tantamount to “a secret declaration of economic war on the Soviet Union.”
• Determined that, rather than coexist with the Soviet system, the U.S. would seek to change it fundamentally. The language, drafted by Harvard historian Richard Pipes, was unequivocal: America intended to “roll back” Soviet influence at every opportunity.

How Ronald Reagan won the Cold War

Whatever its early success, the policy of containment clearly no longer worked. Reagan determined that the time had come for a new strategy: “We win and they lose.”

thehill.com

Hindsight is twenty-twenty considering that the USSR didn't stop existing until 1991.

 

[Donald H]

We must always keep in mind the possibility of America staging a 'Gulf of Tonkin' type of attack on Russia.
There are many reports of a large part of the US military command level being in favour of war with Russia.

Russia isn't going to attack but there is a distinct possibility that the US will, based on a false flag incident or similar.

Everybody hold your breathe! If it comes then it's going to be the big one!

 

[Donald H]

Reagan determined that the time had come for a new strategy: “We win and they lose.”

In his first presidential press conference, Reagan stunned official Washington by denouncing the Soviet leadership as still dedicated to “world revolution and a one-world Socialist-Communist state.” As he wrote in his official autobiography, “I decided we had to send as powerful a message as we could to the Russians that we weren’t going to stand by anymore while they armed and financed terrorists and subverted democratic governments.”

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Based on intelligence reports and his life-long study, Reagan concluded that Soviet communism was cracking and ready to crumble. In May 1982 he went public with his assessment of the Soviets’ systemic weakness. Speaking at his alma mater, Eureka College, he declared that the Soviet empire was “faltering because rigid centralized control has destroyed incentives for innovation, efficiency, and individual achievement.”

One month later, in a prophetic address to the British Parliament at Westminster, Reagan said that the Soviet Union was gripped by a “great revolutionary crisis” and that a “global campaign for freedom” would ultimately prevail. He boldly predicted that “the march of freedom and democracy … will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.”

He directed his top national security team to develop a plan to end the Cold War by winning it. The result was a series of top-secret national security decision directives that:

• Committed the U.S. to “neutralizing” Soviet control over Eastern Europe and authorized covert action and other means to support anti-Soviet groups in the region.
• Adopted a policy of attacking a “strategic triad” of critical resources –financial credits, high technology and natural gas – essential to Soviet economic survival. Author-economist Roger Robinson said the directive was tantamount to “a secret declaration of economic war on the Soviet Union.”
• Determined that, rather than coexist with the Soviet system, the U.S. would seek to change it fundamentally. The language, drafted by Harvard historian Richard Pipes, was unequivocal: America intended to “roll back” Soviet influence at every opportunity.

How Ronald Reagan won the Cold War

Whatever its early success, the policy of containment clearly no longer worked. Reagan determined that the time had come for a new strategy: “We win and they lose.”

thehill.com

No Reagan tactic is going to work against Russia as long as Putin is standing. Ya'all can take that to the bank.

 

[Litwin]

Putin threatened NATO, not just the USA.

Putin threatened NATO, not just the USA.

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Canada and the West are at war with Russia whether they want it or not: military experts - National | Globalnews.ca

Russian aggression is the top challenge for liberal democracies right now, military experts warned.

globalnews.ca

 

[Litwin]

No Reagan tactic is going to work against Russia as long as Putin is standing. Ya'all can take that to the bank.

WHY do you think so?

 

[Litwin]

Hindsight is twenty-twenty considering that the USSR didn't stop existing until 1991.

cos we fed them for many years , I have no idea why , do you ? we´d give this map to Gorbachev if they wanted to eat they ´d follow this map

 

[Donald H]

WHY do you think so?

Demonstrate your interest in the conversation with some substance of your own.
Haven't I made it clear to all of you on what it takes?

 

[Litwin]

No amount of sanctions can sink Putins economy. They are one of the worlds leaders in trade and pretty much everything else.


Just because you hate Russia so much shouldn't blind your eyes to reality.

with other words Moscow imperial economy - SUCKS !

 

[Litwin]

Russia's biggest enemy? Its own economy

Russia's leaders have been fully aware of the reasons for its underlying economic weakness for more than two decades. Dependency on energy exports and the lack of technological innovation were themes of Vladimir Putin's first state-of-the-nation address back in 2000.

euobserver.com

Two decades of stagnation​

This failure is all the more glaring because Russia's leaders have been fully aware of the reasons for its underlying economic weakness for more than two decades. An excessive dependency on energy exports and the lack of technological innovation were themes of Vladimir Putin's first state of the nation address in 2000, but high oil prices in the years that followed meant little incentive for reform.


Dmitry Medvedev likewise lamented his country's "primitive economy based on raw materials and endemic corruption" at the start of his one-term presidency. He at least tried to act on that concern.


The Skolkovo Innovation Centre launched on the outskirts of Moscow in 2010 was intended to be Russia's answer to Silicon Valley and a means of converting the country's strong scientific base into commercial success. But, like many previous attempts at top-down at economic modernisation in Russia, it has delivered very little in the way of meaningful change.


What Russia's leaders has been unwilling to do at anything more than a rhetorical level is to address the serious institutional weaknesses that stifle entrepreneurship and the limit the growth of an independent business sector.

'Corporate-raiding', Russian-style​

The most important of these is the lack of a fair and independent judicial system capable of enforcing contracts and protecting property rights. Tens of thousands of businesses are seized every year in a particularly Russian form of corporate raiding, known as reiderstvo, in which business owners are arrested on false charges and their assets confiscated with the collusion of corrupt judges, police officers and other public officials.


Although Putin has acknowledged the damage done to Russia's economic interests by this practice, a recent study by a team of academics from the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University has highlighted what it describes as a "pandemic of illegal raiding" with a 135 percent increase in the number of cases in 2019 alone.


The impact on business confidence is devastating. As the report notes, Putin's own business ombudsman has reported that: "Over 80 percent of entrepreneurs consider doing business in the country unsafe, [and] unfortunately, this number is growing."


It's part of the reason why net capital outflows from Russia rose to $47.8bn [€40.4bn] last year.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

Your stupid graph doesn't matter. The U.S.A. Can't put a dent in it. China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba... they will all come to the aid of Russia.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

Russia is more than economics. It's a land of tough people and one of the worlds strongest militaries. Ever watch a Russian Parade?

 

[Claudette]

Confederate Soldier
I agree and no Bidung won't do a damned thing and Putin knows it.

 

[struth]

Xiden will do nothing to stop Putin from invading Eastern Europe. Nothing.