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comment by CrazyEyeJoe

I knew someone would post this - too good to pass up.

I was asking myself whether this could be made up, but this makes it sound very convincing to me:

    On 1 September, he took out a full-page advert in the New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe headlined: “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure.”

    The ad offered some highly unorthodox opinions in Ronald Reagan’s cold war America, accusing ally Japan of exploiting the US and expressing scepticism about US participation in Nato. It took the form of an open letter to the American people “on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves”.

It sounds like really obvious Soviet propaganda.