Biden State Department must heed Reagan’s ‘peace through strength’ messagePeace through America’s strength illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington TimesUnfortunately, ever since Reagan’s historic efforts brought peace to much of the world, Russia — the legal successor of the Soviet Union — was allowed to regroup and get stronger.
Annexing Crimea from Ukraine was the first sign of trouble to come. Russia was allowed to reassert its malign influence across most of the former Soviet space, preventing any meaningful political and economic reform in those countries and, in 2022, it launched an all-out war against Ukraine..
After the Russia-approved exodus of 120,000 Armenians from Artsakh last Sept. 19-20, which has been called ethnic cleansing by scholars and observers, at the time of this writing, the world is bracing for a new invasion andAmbassador Sam Brownback, one of the witnesses at the hearing with whom I also served with in Congress, discussed the need for the U.S. to seize the opportunity to removewith much-needed weapons and security assistance to help defend itself.
While we were enthused by the commitments made by the administration when Samantha Power, U.N. Agency for International Development administrator, visitedbefore internationally secured conditions are made for refugees to return to Nagorno-Karabakh. Doing so would be tantamount to the U.S. rewarding Azerbaijan for ethnic cleansing of Armenians, something that President Biden vowed to help avoid in his April 24, 2021, statement.had a foreign policy guided by “peace through strength.
• Robert L. Livingston is founding partner at The Livingston Group, a Washington-based government affairs firm. He served as a member of Congress from Louisiana for 22 years. He and his company are registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act to represent the National Democratic Alliance in the United States.
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