re: The Americans: Season 5 thread (possible spoilers)

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Poor Randy. He should have asked.

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too bad these guys don't realize they are dead already and don't tell them anything.

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I still think this is NOT a plan to use them as a weapon.
A starving USSR would be very dangerous. Plus, it would only serve to punish the Soviet people, and that wasn't Reagan's style.

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I'm know the CIA or some other agencies did or least thought of/tested some F'ed up stuff (and the USSR was worse) but I've never heard of a plan like this. I also know Weisberg is a liberal democrat and has ridiculed Reagan, particularly the "Evil Empire" comment (history I think vindicates Reagan there) so I'm thinking this is a creation of the writers and is a plan to destroy the USSR crops. Carter did impose a grain embargo that Reagan reversed (guessing they won't mention that ) and in reality, the embargo seemed to help show the Soviets they didn't need grain from the US.

Still chaps me that they are so indignant about destroying their food, when Uncle Joe starved their own people on purpose and commies in Ethiopia were do the same at that time