Declassified Nixon letter to then-Prez Clinton includes prophetic warning about Russia

nypost ^ | 7/22/2023 | Chris Pandolfo

[bitt]

A month before he died in April 1994, former President Richard Nixon wrote a letter to then-President Bill Clinton offering what Clinton later called “wise counsel, especially with regard to Russia.” The contents of that letter have now been declassified by the Clinton presidential library and appear prophetic.

In the seven-page letter, dated March 21, 1994, and discussed by history professor Luke Nichter in the Wall Street Journal, Nixon gave a blunt assessment of the political situation in Russia, predicting accurately that relations between Moscow and Kyiv would deteriorate and that someone like Putin could come to power. Nixon, 81 at the time, wrote the letter after he returned from a two-week trip to Russia and Ukraine.

While the former president is infamous for departing the White House amid scandal in 1974, his legacy includes being the architect of détente with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In 1972, Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit Moscow, where he signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Nixon spent the years following his presidency taking foreign trips on behalf of the United States and offering counsel based on decades of experience to guide U.S. policy in the post-Cold War era.

Nixon considered the survival of political and economic freedom in Russia “the most important foreign policy issue the nation will face for the balance of this century.” With that understanding, he told Clinton that based on what he saw in Russia, a fledgling democracy under former Russian President Boris Yeltsin was in danger.

[bitt]

Richard Nixon’s 1994 letter to then-president Bill Clinton, recently declassified, is an eye-opener:

https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/nixonletter.pdf

[algore]

I did not know that presidential libraries had the power to declassify documents.

[Levy78]

Where was NEVER going to peace with Russia. MIC’s trillions depend on that and whenever there was the slightest détente with Russia, we go on stupid adventures against the Muj. Open your eyes, people.