In November 2022, state department officials went to great lengths to prevent a meeting at the G20 summit between Biden and Putin. They knew that at some point, the two leaders would cross paths, but US officials ruled out a formal meeting and took steps to ensure that the American president does not encounter his Russian counterpart in a hallway or even in a group photo. Why? Well, the answer is that President Biden thinks Putin is a killer, a war criminal and, you don’t usually meet with killers and war criminals. Both of Biden’s immediate predecessors — Barack Obama and Donald Trump — crafted foreign policies that involved direct engagement with traditionally adversarial leaders; Obama as a matter of bridging difficult diplomatic divides, Trump as part creating personal and political alliances. Biden has had less engagement abroad. And today, Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine is TIME’s man of the year and awarded such an honor for standing up to the Soviet Union. With that in mind…just how did Ronald Reagan handle those pesky Russians?
A Reagan Forum – Carlos Lozada
Words To Live By – Pointe du Hoc
A Reagan Forum – Memorial Day 2024
Words To Live By – Eulogies in Honor of President Reagan
A Reagan Forum – Ed O'Keefe
Words To Live By – The Olympic Torch
A Reagan Forum – Anita McBride, Diana Carlin, and Nancy Kegan Smith
Words To Live By – Central America
A Reagan Forum – GOP Foreign Policy
Words To Live By – Truman and Reagan
A Reagan Forum – AI, Autonomy, and Defense
Words To Live By – The United Nations
A Reagan Forum – Behind the Scenes at the Reagan Library
Words To Live By – Star Wars and SDI
A Reagan Forum – The Honorable Kathleen Hicks
Words To Live By – The Dominican Republic
A Reagan Forum – Active vs. Activist Citizenship
Words To Live By – Basketball at the White House
A Reagan Forum – The Best of President Reagan's Humor
Words To Live By – Trip to China
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