"In the fall of 1983 the KGB launched an all-out "peace offensive" through a welter of front organizations in the US and Europe. A nuclear freeze at that moment would have meant permanently freezing in place the Soviet advantage in troops and weapons, precisely the Kremlin's main objective.
As Kenneth Timmerman wrote in "The French Betrayal of America," in the United States "the nuclear freeze movement won the support of key Democrats in Congress as well as that of political gadfly Jesse Jackson whose Operation PUSH joined forces with the Communist Party USA and the Soviet-backed U.S. Peace Council in demanding nothing less than the unilateral dismantling of the entire U.S. Military."
The entire nuclear freeze moment was a Soviet initiated and backed and financed attempt to undermine President Reagan's nuclear strategy which even then was beginning to drive the Soviet Union into an arms race that it could not win and would eventually bankrupt them.
In 1985, Kerry, who was elected to the Senate with the help of a nuclear freeze PAC, spoke at a nuclear freeze conference in Geneva where he pandered to European pacifists with the absurd claim, "if it were not for the freeze movement, I am confident that the government of the United States would not be in Geneva today talking with its Soviet counterparts."
As an early backer of the nuclear freeze movement, Kerry got in bed with European leftists who denounced Reagan as a reckless cowboy for daring to counter Soviet SS-20 missile emplacements in Eastern Europe with U.S. Pershing IIs.
In 1985 Kerry introduced The Comprehensive Nuclear Freeze Bill, and sponsored two amendments to freeze the Strategic Defense Initiative related nuclear development. All of this was in complete opposition to the policies of the Reagan White House which was actively pursuing a strategy of keeping the pressure up on the evil Soviet Empire, a strategy which ultimately succeeded despite Kerry's and the KGB's efforts to derail it. If Kerry's legislation had passed it would have completely undermined the policies being pursued by the White House, prolonging the Cold War very likely to this very day.
Had Kerry been in charge of fighting the Cold War against Communism, the Soviet Union would still exist. Once again he ended up backing the other side at one of the most crucial moments in the Cold War."
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As Kenneth Timmerman wrote in "The French Betrayal of America," in the United States "the nuclear freeze movement won the support of key Democrats in Congress as well as that of political gadfly Jesse Jackson whose Operation PUSH joined forces with the Communist Party USA and the Soviet-backed U.S. Peace Council in demanding nothing less than the unilateral dismantling of the entire U.S. Military."
The entire nuclear freeze moment was a Soviet initiated and backed and financed attempt to undermine President Reagan's nuclear strategy which even then was beginning to drive the Soviet Union into an arms race that it could not win and would eventually bankrupt them.
In 1985, Kerry, who was elected to the Senate with the help of a nuclear freeze PAC, spoke at a nuclear freeze conference in Geneva where he pandered to European pacifists with the absurd claim, "if it were not for the freeze movement, I am confident that the government of the United States would not be in Geneva today talking with its Soviet counterparts."
As an early backer of the nuclear freeze movement, Kerry got in bed with European leftists who denounced Reagan as a reckless cowboy for daring to counter Soviet SS-20 missile emplacements in Eastern Europe with U.S. Pershing IIs.
In 1985 Kerry introduced The Comprehensive Nuclear Freeze Bill, and sponsored two amendments to freeze the Strategic Defense Initiative related nuclear development. All of this was in complete opposition to the policies of the Reagan White House which was actively pursuing a strategy of keeping the pressure up on the evil Soviet Empire, a strategy which ultimately succeeded despite Kerry's and the KGB's efforts to derail it. If Kerry's legislation had passed it would have completely undermined the policies being pursued by the White House, prolonging the Cold War very likely to this very day.
Had Kerry been in charge of fighting the Cold War against Communism, the Soviet Union would still exist. Once again he ended up backing the other side at one of the most crucial moments in the Cold War."
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