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I was shocked by this as a liberal college kid. I would meet these Russian emigres and they all REVERED Reagan. I would ask them why, and the “evil empire” speech would come up again and again. We always focused on how that speech would be heard in the Kremlin. — PolitiTweet.org

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When Reagan called the Soviet Union the “Evil Empire,” nearly all the people around me thought it was war mongering… https://t.co/BbbdVxpI3h

Posted March 26, 2022

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Biden said was morally correct and an important statement of what is necessary for this conflict actually to end. Sometimes speaking the truth is a radical act. And if it makes Putin have nightmares of being dragged through the streets Qaddafi-style, I’m okay with that. Really. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 26, 2022

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We didn’t pay enough attention to how it would be heard by Russians. Similarly, I care less about how Biden’s speech is heard by Putin than about how it gets heard by Ukrainians it would be very wrong of him to demoralize—and by Russian people who need to make very hard choices — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 26, 2022