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2026 wasn't the first time foreign policy swayed an election

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2026 wasn't the first time foreign policy swayed an election

If foreign policy could decide an election, then 1992 upended expectations. Barely eight months after the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time, President George H. W. Bush found himself reminding Americans that he had led the USSR peacefully into history’s dustbin while also liberating Kuwait from the clutches of Saddam Hussein.“My opponents say I spend too much time on foreign policy, as if it didn't matter that schoolchildren once hid under their desks in drills to prepare for nuclear war,” said Bush during his acceptance speech at the 1992 Republican National Conventio

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