Aug. 29, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| President Reagan succeeded in defeating America's greatest foes without war because of the fact that he was this slogan, Peace Through Strength, which was attached to let's make America great again. | |
| Both of those slogans were Reagan slogans. | |
| And that policy worked. | |
| It succeeded in defeating the enemy, eliminating a horrific threat to America, but without going and invading a dozen foreign countries. | |
| The largest thing that Reagan directly invaded was Grenada. | |
| It was a two-week operation. | |
| So I think that Trump is in many ways shaped by the Reagan presidency. | |
| And his war policies, his sense about what can you do with war and what do you need it for, for military action at all, is very Reagan-esque, | |
| that you need very great capacities in order to be able to deter war, and then you need to be willing to exercise military power in restricted situations for limited times in order to be able to make it clear to everyone that you're serious. | |
| You're not scared of military power. | |
| And that's what the Trump administration looks like right now. | |
| It is not anti-war in the pacifist sense. | |
| They're willing to fight when necessary, but the goal is to minimize the direct reliance on force and to maximize the reliance on deterrence and diplomacy. |
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