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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Marianne, are you dating Coach @3YearLetterman?
Three Year Letterman
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30 Aug 2022
Soviet prime minister Milkail Gorbachev has passed away. Let us not forget the time that he banged his shoes in front of NATO because he was upset that the Soviets didn’t have electricity yet and that America was the oldest and greatest country on earth.
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How many more billions of dollars in aid to Russia would have been necessary for help like this to have qualified as a visionary foreign policy?
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The amount of stupid in this tweet is transcendental. Gorby wasn't a reformist visionary, he was a russian colonialist trying to keep status quo at the cost of innocent civilian lives. How clueless are you?
Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M
 @sumlenny
30 Aug 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev died. He was a criminal who ordered to violently suppress peaceful protest in Riga, Vilnius, Tbilisi, Alma-Ata, and other cities. He was cheered in the West because the West did not care about dead Kazakhs or Lithuanians. It is a pity he was never tried in court
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She writes books while being THIS clueless Effing AMAZING
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America literally bent over backwards to help Russia in the 90’s with my tax dollars. Yes, I was already working at the time and I remember it well. We helped them establish a democracy and gave them freedom to choose their own direction. This is what they chose.
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Bad take. Gorbachev had no real vision. He rode a wave of privatization that led both to his downfall and the destruction of the Soviet Union, and paved way for shock therapy austerity. US imperialism didn't want to help Russia, it wanted exactly what occured.
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We're not everyone's sugar daddy.
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Not saying Putin is a saint, but after seeing all the mess that American war machine made around the world for profit & resource grabbing, I'm not mad at him. The wars Putin waged is a mole hill compared to the tall mountain of Americans! 2/3rd of the world sees it that way too!
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That was certainly Gorbachev's contention. I don't buy it. Putin came after years of yeltsin and neoliberal "shock therapy". Certainly it was the US's fault, but Gorbachev was no help and largely the architect of his own political demise. 🤷
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