Michael McFaul

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Michael McFaul @McFaul

What the Obama administration did not do enough (in my personal view) was to INDEPENDENTLY (not linked to arms control) follow a robust containment and democracy promotion strategy. Reagan did w/ Soviets, but not linked to arms control. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 6, 2020 Hibernated

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Michael McFaul @McFaul

Of course, the Obama administration did just this-- a major pressure campaign (beginning with UNSC 1929 and the even more unilateral sanctions) to arm our diplomacy leading to JCPOA. Maybe you didnt like the final outcome. But it was exactly this Reagan strategy on arms control — PolitiTweet.org

@DanielBShapiro @McFaul When Reagan ran a very successful anti-Soviet maximum pressure campaign to arm his diplomac… https://t.co/jJifb2x4bI

Posted Dec. 6, 2020 Hibernated

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Michael McFaul @McFaul

For instance, Reagan did not make Soviet withdrawal of support for communists in the developing world a condition of any arms control agreement with Moscow. Nor did he link progress on arms control to human rights concerns or democratic change inside the USSR. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 6, 2020 Hibernated