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re: Did the Dems love Russia and hate Reagan during his presidency?
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:40 am to loogaroo
Posted on 4/24/24 at 11:40 am to loogaroo
Early in his presidency, Reagan was fairly hard line against the Soviets. Things really peaked with Pershing missile deployments in Europe and the downing of the KAL flight.
Soviet leadership was, for the most part, paranoid about a sneak attack from the west. So much that they nearly overreacted during NATO's Able Archer exercise. The early 80s's were second to the the Cuban missile crisis in terms of going to the brink. Although, it's been wrote that the Yom Kippur War got pretty toasty.
The media pretty much loathed Reagan. There was a lot of pushback in the media with the decision to deploy intermediate range missiles in Europe and SDI (which was really a PSYOP to spook Moscow. Later in the 1980's it was constant bashing of Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal.
Soviet leadership was, for the most part, paranoid about a sneak attack from the west. So much that they nearly overreacted during NATO's Able Archer exercise. The early 80s's were second to the the Cuban missile crisis in terms of going to the brink. Although, it's been wrote that the Yom Kippur War got pretty toasty.
The media pretty much loathed Reagan. There was a lot of pushback in the media with the decision to deploy intermediate range missiles in Europe and SDI (which was really a PSYOP to spook Moscow. Later in the 1980's it was constant bashing of Reagan during the Iran-Contra scandal.
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Posted on 4/24/24 at 3:24 pm to BluegrassCardinal
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So much that they nearly overreacted during NATO's Able Archer exercise. The early 80s's were second to the the Cuban missile crisis in terms of going to the brink.
I was in Pershing and on the nuke site when this was going on. Pad stayed in ready fire for almost 36 hours.
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