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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Replying to @marwilliamson @JenChangeFL
yeah, maybe but what's wrong with Putin? as compared to a cross-dresser like elensky pretending to a leader of a thoroughly corrupt country and slaughtering his own countrymen at the behest of USA, Britain, EU, et al? just askin'...
Replying to @marwilliamson
You, Mam, are what we call an educated idiot.
Replying to @marwilliamson
That dead bastard sure envisioned the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the lose of satellite state dependence... Amazing how eager Poland was to get out from under Soviet control. GDR, too. Ceaucescu's just demise was pretty significant and a foreshadowing of might be in store
Replying to @marwilliamson
Is this some sort of stream of consciousness of bullshit?
Replying to @marwilliamson
You are forgetting that Gorbachev did not want the Soviet Union to collapse or the end of Communism. The Russian people hated democracy. They tried it for 8 years and then voted dictator Putin in.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Reagan led us down the same path. We had so much potential and opportunity and skill to become the awesome future we all envisioned. Instead, we chose to worship the oligarchs, and now we’re a third world country with fancy phones, lousy education, and melting ice caps. USA USA
Replying to @marwilliamson
3 possibilities here. 1) You are seriously ill informed 2) You are willfully spreading misinformation 3) You are an idiot. Of course, these are not mutually exclusive.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Marianne is delusional. Name a country that the US has helped? In any continent. Putin is the best thing that happened to Russia. The matter of fact that after 60 billion dollars and western sanctions Russia is doing better than before the war started proves his worth.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Bush gave a speech in Kiev in 1991 that was derided as the Chicken Kiev speech because of his opposition to the break-up of the Soviet Union. I don't know what the hell you are talking about.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Putin saved lives. Bill Clinton's drunk puppet Boris Yeltsin allowed the Oligarchs and the Foreign Banks to impose brutal Neo-Liberal Shock Therapy upon his country. This caused living standards and life expectancy to plummet. Putin reversed this. And his people are grateful.
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