Mikhail Gorbachev was a visionary leader. The refusal of the U.S. to help Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed was typical of America's arrogance and lack of visionary foreign policy. If we had helped Gorbachev then, Russia's path would probably have not been toward a Putin.

Aug 30, 2022 · 11:09 PM UTC

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Ignorant, fact-free tweet above. Try reading some history so you don’t further embarrass yourself by tweeting such nonsense. Follow @RadioFreeTom and others who know their stuff.
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By the "refusal of the US to help Russia," she means the $7 billion or so in direct US aid to Russia in the '90s, to say nothing of the billions more in multilateral loans, etc. It is the "lack of vision" of the US that forced the Russian govt elite to steal for 3 decades.
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In 1987 there were (roughly) 21 million people living below the poverty line in the USSR. In 1993, that number increased to more than 66 million in the former soviet republics. It never went down again.
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During the 90’s, the United States and Russia were forming good relations under Boris Yeltsin. But many Russians did not like Yeltsin as their President. Relations with Russia were fine, until Russia attacked in Georgia in 2008 and got worse in 2014 and in 2022.
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Marianne I agree and that’s how I felt back then also. Gorbachev was about expanding freedoms, making overtures to the west and I felt we didn’t engage enough at all
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This tweet is so untrue, it needs to come down. I worked these issues in Bush 43 years. We tried hard to help Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
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What? You think we should have helped Gorbachev? Why? Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union. Why would we help keep the Soviet Union in power? We helped Yeltsin, because he brought democracy to Russia for the first time ever in history.
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Wtf are you talking about?
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Your tweet shows you don't remember what happened when the Soviet Union fell. Gorbachev wasn't in power. The US tried to help Boris Yeltsin as much as possible, even getting him into the G7. Go back to your self help books.
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