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 路 11:09 PM UTC

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This is such a misunderstanding of what USSR was. Your solution would have just propped up and perpetuated this oppressive regime while blocking those nations that tried to escape it. Baltic states would still be part of USSR. Belarus and Ukraine also. And Central Asian countries
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Milton Friedman's Shock Doctrine was the foreign policy then.
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Gorbachev was a Communist and after the fall of the Soviets, the C.I.S. (former Soviet Nations) were attempting democracies. Yes the US could have helped more, but no, the prior communist leaders were not the political figures to bolster for the hopeful new democratic era.
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Wut?
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You would've hated him as another "neoliberal." I guess this needed the Kremlin's green light after your leader sent his condolences.
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Facts matter and these are wrong.
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We backed his successor (Yeltsin) heavily and aided their admission into the G7 and gave them billions.
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And your background in US foreign policy is exactly what?
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