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1 May 2025

Why Is Trump Unilaterally Dismantling US Defenses?

JILL KASTNER and WILLIAM C. WOHLFORTH

In 1933, when US President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to normalize relations with the Soviet Union, he told Joseph Stalin that the Kremlin would first have to knock off its subversive activities inside the United States. Likewise, when President Ronald Reagan wanted to ease Cold War tensions, his Secretary of State, George P. Shultz, made it clear to Mikhail Gorbachev that Soviet spooks must stop spreading lies about AIDS being caused by US bioweapons research.

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