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The Soviets came with hat-in-hand to buy US grain. US farmers pressured Carter to approve the grain sales and Carter did in 1979.
Carter stopped the sale of grain to the USSR when they invaded Afghanistan. Then our friend to the north, Pierre Trudeau, kindly stepped in and sold the USSR Canadian grain.
Carter stopped the sale of grain to the USSR when they invaded Afghanistan. Then our friend to the north, Pierre Trudeau, kindly stepped in and sold the USSR Canadian grain.
It's a bit more nuanced than that.
"In explaining Canada's decision, Argue claimed his country was penalized by terms of the U.S. deal with China, which requires the Chinese to first turn to U.S. suppliers for additional grain above the amounts specified in the contract. Another provision requires China to restrict grain purchases from Canada and Australia if it reduces its U.S. purchases, Argue said.
"We said to the Americans, 'If you want us to go along [with the embargo] you have to play ball,'" Argue said. "We don't want you out being aggressive in other markers. If you want us to restrain ourselves in the Soviet market, don't go out and cut us off in some other markets."
"We're not endeavoring to supplant the whole of U.S. sales [to the Soviets]," Argue said."We're not trying to multiply our sales to the Russians by two or something.""
More on that Rockefeller connection to the Iran hostage crisis.
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Now, a newly disclosed secret history from the offices of Mr. Rockefeller shows in vivid detail how Chase Manhattan Bank and its well-connected chairman worked behind the scenes to persuade the Carter administration to admit the shah, one of the bank’s most profitable clients...
The job was done, then the am-Bush accused Saddam of making WMDs and so the Bush bombed Iraq.
The Bushes shot Reagan a little over three months of Reagan into "his" presidency. Was he wearing any PPE Personal Protection Equipment?
The U.S. owes Iran a lot for America's war damages by foxy proxy - The killing of Saddam wasn't enough, George.
The sequence is probably important - or something.
I was down there in Tucson driving the Miracle Mile when my radio said Reagan was shot, April 30th. The base I was working on was training Wart Hog pilots along with Arabic language courses. 1981
"Many American and European companies(21) were helping Saddam to build up its Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) programs from 1975 onward, as well as rockets and conventional weapons. According to leaked reports, Iraq’s WMD program consisted of nuclear(22), chemical and biological weapons(23) of mass destruction(24). These aids were apart from governmental aids. Later it was disclosed that American standards(25) were used in production of Iraqi biological weapons(26). The Atlanta-based Center for Disease Control (CDC) sent 14 agents "with biological warfare significance" to Iraq between 1985 and 1989(27)."
Carter stopped the sale of grain to the USSR when they invaded Afghanistan. Then our friend to the north, Pierre Trudeau, kindly stepped in and sold the USSR Canadian grain.
Except the Russians didn't invade Afghanistan.
Daud overthrew the government in 1974. In 1978, a US-backed group overthrew Daud and executed him and about 100 of his supporters and then buried them in pit dug by the construction equipment Daud imported to modernize the country.
Then the military overthrew the US-backed group, then another group overthrew the military.
Then the military and the US-backed group attempted counter-coups but failed.
Then a group of tribes in the northwest formed an army and started marching to Kabul. And then a group of tribes in the north formed a separate army, and a group of tribes in the south formed another separate army -- they would later be called the Taliban.
All three armies are marching on Kabul and whoever gets their first is the next government, because the current government was incapable of defending, since it lost most of it men, weapons and equipment fending off the counter-coups.
They asked the Soviets for help and the Soviets obliged.
That's not an invasion, unless you think the US invaded Vietnam.
So, basically Carter was mad because the US-backed group failed and the Soviets beat him to the punch.
Yes, they did. The US sold 203 mm//8" chemical rounds to Iraq. It's possible they were the new binary rounds, but I don't think so.
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