Donald Trump or the third death of Ronald Reagan
ANALYSIS - By effectively abandoning Ukraine to the Russian army, the American president has once again liquidated the legacy of Ronald Reagan, who embodied an America that was optimistic and open to the world.
Ronald Reagan , the president who won the Cold War (with the fall of the Berlin Wall ) ten months after he left the White House, died a third time this week. Donald Trump killed him, by de facto abandoning Ukraine to the Russian army . And even if this abandonment was only a bluff to force Volodymyr Zelensky to make concessions in exchange for Western guarantees, the damage is done.
Ronald Reagan, who died of pneumonia complicated by Alzheimer's disease in June 2004, embodied an optimistic America, open to the world, welcoming to immigrants persecuted by communism or other dictatorships. With a natural oratorical ease, perfected in Hollywood, a charming simplicity and a disarming humor, he was the complete opposite of Donald Trump.
His party was fighting for the lifting of customs barriers, a fight that at the time was mainly aimed at Japan. Thanks to the military and moral recovery of the United States under Reagan, the Soviet Union…
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