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Trump echoes Reagan's past tactics with Russian diesel imports

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Donald Trump is drawing parallels to Ronald Reagan's past actions regarding Soviet sanctions and grain sales. Reagan lifted sanctions on a Soviet pipeline to benefit American farmers before midterm elections, a move criticized as hypocritical. Similarly, Trump's administration has allowed Russian diesel imports into the US, ostensibly to lower fuel prices before an election, despite previous import bans. AI

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Trump echoes Reagan's past tactics with Russian diesel imports

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Thomas O. Falk ·

    With diesel deal, Trump is teaching Reagan’s lesson to a larger class

    In June 1982, Ronald Reagan imposed sanctions to prevent European firms from using American technology to help build a pipeline that would carry Soviet gas to western Europe. He warned that Europe was making itself a hostage to the Kremlin and contributing to the Moscow’s war che…

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