Reagan, the president of the United States with the best acting skills

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(4) Running for re-election -- only routines win the hearts and minds of the people

As his first term drew to a close and he ran for re-election, one of the big problems Reagan faced was taxation.

As mentioned earlier, Reagan's ultimate goal was to balance the budget and stop increasing the deficit. His three axes are tax cuts, cuts in government spending and an increase in the defense budget.

The tax cuts reduced government revenue, and the cuts in government spending reduced spending, and the two measures canceled each other out and almost remained the same. An increase in the defense budget will undoubtedly increase the deficit.

Spending has been reduced, military spending has to increase, and if you want the deficit to be less ugly, you can only raise taxes.

Will voters vote for a president who promises to increase taxes? I am a happy worker, originally paid 100 yuan of income tax every month, your policy is implemented, you have to pay 500 yuan per month, and then you want me to choose you, who has a problem with his head?

Reagan's opponent was such a faulty candidate who preached tax increases.

Reagan and his staff knew they had to raise taxes next, but they decided to make a promise to the voters to cut taxes, and when re-elected, the tax would be raised or raised.

Just like a scumbag, he thinks that he will definitely cheat in the future, and when he proposes marriage, he is full of unswerving love.

Since ancient times, true feelings cannot be retained, only routines have won the hearts of the people.

Don't look at Reagan's old age, his staunchest supporters are young people. The 18-24-year-old has a support rate, and he leads the opponent twice as much. How to say it, young people are still too simple, have not experienced the beating of society, and easily believe the lies of a bad old man.

Reagan won electoral votes in 49 states and ran for re-election by overwhelming margin.

After this battle, I believe that young people will be more discerning between right and wrong: when picking people in the future, they must choose the one who speaks ugly.

It is often the scumbags who provide high emotional value.

At this time, the United States is not without good news. The 1980 Moscow Olympics, because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the United States did not participate. The United States hosted the Olympics in 1984, and the Soviets exchanged courtesies and did not participate.

Losing a formidable rival, the United States broke records with 83 gold medals at the Olympics. Every time a gold medal was won, the audience chanted, "America, America." ”

You see, the patriotic atmosphere of the Americans is very strong, and they also attach great importance to the Olympic gold medal. In the recent Olympics, after their advantages were less obvious, they were indifferent to the gold medal: we never cared about the gold medal, only about sportsmanship.

(5) A new line of relations with the Soviet Union

During Reagan's first term, the United States classified Iraq as a terrorist state, but Reagan's private policy was to support Iraq against Iran, providing Iraq with billions of dollars in cash, weapons and satellite photos of Iran's military deployments.

After his re-election, he immediately established diplomatic relations with Iraq, shifting from the previous moderate tilt toward Iraq to full support.

Israel followed in big brother's footsteps and agreed to support Iraq.

Reagan had a special policy adviser: former President Richard Nixon. In a pinch, Nixon would give advice, and Reagan would often call him to report on his work and discuss plans.

Nixon told him that second-term presidents were not as good at talking as before, and that the shorter the remainder of his term, the less support he would have from Congress.

Congress and the president, similar to husband and wife. Newlywed Yan'er, the husband listens to his wife the most, to the seven-year itch, the husband is a salted fish, no matter how the wife fry (noisy), will not turn over.

Success in the second term requires new people, new ideas and new impetus. Simply put, the wife wants to give the husband a fresh feeling.

Reagan seconds to understand. The biggest new task you can do is to ease relations with the Soviet Union.

Reagan sent the secretary of state to Geneva to discuss future negotiations with the Soviet foreign minister, and by the way came a nuclear warhead showdown. The Soviet Union had more intercontinental missiles, the American long-range bombers were dominant, and overall, the nuclear forces of the two countries were half a pound.

After knowing each other's home background, everyone will not dare to mess around.

Reagan invited the new soviet leader Gorbachev to visit the United States, the new official took office, you burned the fire to add firewood to me, and joined hands to sing the double reed. Gorbachev was in his fifties at this time, and compared to the elderly Reagan, he was a full-fledged young man, and we will call him Little Gordon later.

Xiao Ge has just come to power, his position is unstable, and he does not want to risk his life to go to the US Empire. I'll go to you as soon as I take office, and everyone will think I'm going to bai the docks, so let's meet in Geneva first.

The Soviet Economy was much smaller than that of the United States, but military spending was comparable, and with the attrition of the War in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union had changed from an offensive in the 1970s to a defensive position at this time. Xiao Ge's goal is to drastically reduce weapons stockpiles, stop developing new weapon systems, and set aside resources to develop the economy.

Before meeting with the Soviet leaders, Reagan traveled to Germany to support the election of German Chancellor Kohl to visit a place called Bitburg, where the cemetery of German soldiers who died in World War II was located.

Many people objected, saying that Reagan visited the Nazis, and Reagan argued that those ordinary soldiers were also victims of the Nazis, victims.

The most nervous was Reagan's wife, who was afraid that her husband would be shot again, so she found a familiar astrologer and chose a good day for his trip to Germany.

The astrologer took out the astrological map, sealed the altar, recited the words, and made several revisions, and finally determined the time.

The American people did not expect that the mother of the nation was the head of feudal superstition, and the president was willing to be at the mercy of the president.

The Great Immortal of the Stars, the boundless power of mana, the president of a big country, is particularly good at deception.

The president's daily schedule, arranged by the chief of staff, is still based on the calendar given by the astrologer. For example, it is advisable to marry, cut wood, avoid bathing, and avoid moving the soil, and today the god of good fortune is in the West and can fly to San Francisco.

In fact, people's itineraries are controlled by the calendar, some are controlled by the numbers above, and some are marked under the numbers. Ordinary people's calendars were printed by factories, Reagan's calendars were customized by astrologers, and the president was so privileged.

In order to welcome Reagan, the Germans asked 10,000 teenagers to sing the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner Never Falls," in pure English. Old adversaries in World War II reconciled.

Five months before Reagan and Gorbachev met, he began to recite his lines and conduct weekly special studies on Soviet knowledge and watch Soviet films such as Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears.

Old Man, as far as your hard work is concerned, it is no problem to participate in our college entrance examination and be admitted to Lanxiang Technical School.

Want to take the 985? What's so good about undergraduate, is it a graduation package assignment or a work package to eat and live? Be an upright vocational high school student, these benefits are available. To see the trend clearly, in the future, academic qualifications are not valuable, and manpower is valuable.

After the meeting, Xiao Ge was very frank, saying that some Americans believed that the Soviet Union was in economic problems, so it was a good thing to push the Soviet Union into the arms race. This is to retreat into the advance, but also to get off the horse, indicating that I have prejudged your prejudgment, you have a few roundworms in your stomach, I know.

Both sides agreed to nuclear disarmament, and the focus of contention was the Star Wars program.

Reagan said it was nothing, we were just defensive.

What Xiao Ge means is that since nuclear disarmament, there is no need for defense. Nuclear disarmament is to wield a knife from the palace, the Soviet Union has silently recovered from the palace, but the United States has secretly practiced the sunflower treasure book, is this fair? To really implement Star Wars, it will take six hundred billion to one trillion dollars, and you Americans will not be able to eat it.

Reagan did not dare to tell him that the United States invested a little money into Star Wars every year, which was at best a seed round investment. The reason for the big publicity on this track is to let the Soviet Union follow suit, let you lift the palanquin, and drag you down.

After frank, in-depth, long-term and constructive communication, the two sides did not reach a consensus and went back to their respective homes.

The first thing Reagan did when he got home was to call Nixon and report back on his work. Many people do not understand, at work, we must bury our heads in things, but also look up and talk. Good leadership, able to control the overall situation, good subordinates, good at upward management.

As a hit worker, but do good deeds, then there is no future.

Incidentally, while Reagan was willing to ask Nixon for advice, he always criticized Nixon's national security adviser, Kissinger.

Kissinger didn't think much of Reagan either, but he adhered to the logic of pragmatism: since Reagan was governor for eight years and then president, he could not be an insignificant person, but probably an important president in history.

(f) Iran-Contra

Reagan's foreign policy mentor, Nixon, was forced to resign because of Watergate.

When Nixon was running for re-election, he sent people to the Watergate Building, the opponent's campaign headquarters, to eavesdrop, and was arrested. Later, things were full of storms, and Nixon, feeling that no one listened to the speech and could not continue the work, decided to resign.

He told Reagan that his second term speech was not as good as before, but also based on his own personal experience.

The mentor fell from the door, and the apprentice was not spared, but changed from home to abroad and became an Iranian door.

The Lebanon mentioned earlier, after the withdrawal of AMERICAN troops, is still a mess. What's more, several Americans were captured by terrorists and held hostage in Lebanon.

Reagan's official policy was not to compromise, not to negotiate, to release people unconditionally, and not to be negotiable. Because once the compromise is opened and the terrorists' demands are met, there will be endless kidnappings.

At this time, a man who was said to be a moderate in Iran, hooked up with the Americans, saying that he had a way to get Lebanon and get it to release the hostages. The condition is that the United States will sell some weapons to Iran, and the price is negotiable.

Iran needs American weapons because before the Islamic Revolution and during the reign of the Shah, Iran and the United States were good friends, and the troops were all American weapons. After the revolution, relations between Iran and the United States were deadlocked, followed by a war with Iraq, with heavy equipment losses but no replenishment.

Reagan listed Iran and four other countries as terrorist states, saying they were international killing companies and imposing an arms embargo. But when he heard about the offer to possibly rescue the hostages, he was intrigued and decided to send someone to talk about it.

Talking to Iranians and making deals with terrorists is against principle. Reagan had no reverence for principles, let alone his own. A set of superficial and a set of things behind the ground, it is not something that has not been done, right.

And as soon as he became president, Iran released the hostages of the US embassy, and they are still knowledgeable about current affairs and can talk.

Without a shadow from the public and Congress, Reagan signed a secret document authorizing the sale of weapons to Iran. The document was drafted by a lieutenant colonel named North, who was deputy adjutant to the National Security Council.

The United States has an arms embargo on Iran, and it used to be illegal to sell weapons directly, but it would not be illegal for Israel to sell them to Iran first, and then the United States would replenish Israel's inventory.

Israel was involved in the whole thing from the very beginning and was happy to be able to help.

It's similar to the owner of the Jiangnan Tannery who ran away with his sister-in-law, and the remaining employees and a bunch of stock shoes were messy in the wind. In order to recover wages in its entirety, the inventory cannot be discounted, but it cannot be sold without discounting. At this time, a stunned young man ran over and said that he was willing to buy leather shoes at the original price, and you said that the employees were not happy?

At this time, Israel was an employee of the Jiangnan Tannery, and the old weapons were sold at a high price, and new models could be replenished. Although the industry has not been upgraded, the inventory upgrade will be more confident in bullying the Arabs in the future.

Iran was anxious to get the weapons and suffered a bit of a loss in price. At one point, Israel gave $3.65 million worth of weapons, but Iran paid $17 million, the unmatched part, and the middleman made the difference.

This middleman is North, deputy assistant to the National Security Council. Instead of enriching himself, he gave most of it to an opposition in Central America called the Nicaraguan government. The Nicaraguan government is anti-American, the opposition is pro-American, and Reagan has been thinking about making money to support the opposition.

There are many ways to make money, the most direct of which is to accept sponsorship. Several "highly patriotic people," each after giving $300,000 to the opposition, were received by Reagan. The Saudi king paid more money, reaching $25 million. In order to maintain the relationship, the king also fought.

Reagan was happy that it was making money from the enemy of the United States, against another enemy of the United States, namely from Iran, against the Nicaraguan government.

The matter was soon revealed, and everyone blamed the government and terrorists for making deals and sending black money everywhere.

Reagan's rhetoric was, I know about negotiating with Iran, but we didn't talk to terrorists, terrorists in Lebanon. I have no idea about giving money to the Nicaraguan opposition.

Many people's first feeling is: old Piff, really don't want a face.

It ended in such a way that after lengthy hearings and court trials, the people involved were punished. Reagan's presidency was stable, but his reputation was damaged. Later, Bush Sr. succeeded him as president and pardoned all those who were punished.

(7) Huddle for warmth

Nearly a year after Reagan and Xiao Ge met in Geneva, the two sides agreed to renew their frontier in Iceland. I haven't seen her for a long time and I miss it very much.

The nuclear disarmament part, as always, went smoothly, and with regard to Star Wars, it was still red-faced, and in the end everyone broke up.

Xiao Ge's statement is: I have tried everything, but the United States is developing space weapon systems, and only crazy people can continue to advance arms control.

Not long after, on the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin, Reagan ran to Germany and gave a famous speech, publicly shouting to Xiao Ge and calling on him to tear down the Berlin Wall.

By this time, with the toss of Iran-Gate, Reagan had lost the support of Congress and became a lame duck president, and in order to successfully survive until the end of his term, he needed to make a breakthrough in the diplomatic field.

For his part, he carried out comprehensive reforms in the Soviet Union, adopting "new thinking" in both domestic and foreign affairs. Embarrassingly, a series of tumultuous operations made the days of the Soviet Union that were not rich even worse.

There is no way, in order to consolidate the position and resist the stubborn power, it is necessary to achieve breakthrough progress with the United States. His idea was to exchange Western economic aid for nuclear disarmament.

The two bitter people are alone, only the other can give themselves warmth, so they did not hesitate to decide to hug each other. In December 1987, Xiao Ge ran to the United States to do a big vote: sign a disarmament agreement.

The treaties to be signed are communicated in advance, and as for the signing time, it is still determined by the astrologer. Sometimes, the tide has a letter, the auspicious day meets, the good day signs, and the Americans know this set very well.

The two sides agreed to destroy some of their nuclear weapons, and surprisingly, the Soviet Union did not continue the BB Star Wars program.

After repeated evaluations, they believe that Star Wars is not so much a threat as a dream, and that existing technology is impossible to achieve. Even if the future development is successful, the Soviet Union only needs to spend one-tenth of the United States to speed up the rate of fire of the rocket, and it will be able to easily break through it.

The world of martial arts, only fast is not broken, this simple truth, the Soviet Union finally realized.

Little Gor told Reagan that the Soviet Union would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan within a year, and it was not fun to play hide-and-seek in the mountains with local tribes.

There was one more thing, Xiao Ge did not say.

A year ago Reagan approved the sale of Stinger missiles to Afghanistan, which cost Soviet helicopters dearly, and without helicopter support, ground forces were vulnerable to guerrilla strikes. Not to mention the economic pressure, from the perspective of combat alone, the Soviet Union could not continue to fight.

The Cold War has reached an inflection point.

In the last year of Reagan's tenure, he ran to Moscow and had one last intimate encounter with Xiao Ge. Reagan wanted to establish his historical position, and Xiao Ge wanted to ensure a future.

At the dinner party, Little Gordon talked endlessly, but Reagan fell asleep. Is it associated with Biden? He also fell asleep during his meetings with the Israeli prime minister.

Actors are too late, heroes are late, and it is inevitable.

To Xiao Ge's disappointment, the disarmament agreement was signed, but Western aid never came. Every time I talk about aid, Americans beat haha: We are such good brothers, and it hurts feelings to raise money, right.

The attitude of the Americans is this: support your disarmament, keep my wallet.

If you are lame, I can walk sideways.

(viii) Epilogue

In Reagan's eight years as president, three years had deficits of more than $200 billion, and the other years averaged $150 billion. The idea of balancing the budget has become a joke.

The U.S. Treasury bill soared from $1 trillion when he took office to $2.6 trillion at the end of his term. This year, U.S. Treasuries are about to reach $30 trillion.

That is to say, after the founding of the United States, it took two hundred years to slowly increase the national debt to 1 trillion. In the forty years since Reagan took office, it has easily reached 30 trillion. This is the legendary exponential growth.

Exponential growth in wealth is a blessing, and exponential growth in debt will be retaliated against.

For the Soviet Union, many people said that if it were not for Gorbachev's death, it would not have disintegrated so quickly.

Unfortunately, history has no ifs.

As for whether the US imperialists are on the road to the death of the national debt, I believe that the answer will be seen soon.

The big global change is coming.

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