This is why you should not take your Soviet history lessons from a self-help writer. Not only did the United States try to help Gorbachev, he wasn't in power after the Soviet collapse, and we then went all-in for Yeltsin, including getting Russia into the G-7.
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.
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You have no idea what kind of writer I am because you have never read my books. (You should never take your advice from someone who gets their opinions secondhand from the internet.) It was Gorbachev who allowed the breakup of the Soviet Union. Of course he was in power.

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Marianne, please don’t do this to yourself. He’s arrogant but he’s also correct. And an expert in this particular field, not someone who gets his ideas about Russia secondhand from the internet.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Marianne, meet Tom. 🙂 He’s a writer, too. I think he’s probably pretty covered on Gorbachev, though. 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Have you read any of Tom’s books? I think you should 😉
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Please stop now. The embarrassment is only growing.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Take a seat, M. Take all the seats.
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You never did Model UN and it shows.
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I was curious, so I went to Marianne's page and watched this video. Ugh. Also, I wouldn't have recommended that jacket with that dress.
Marianne Williamson
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Well I can at least tell you aren't a writer of modern Soviet/Russian history.
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To think that you had the audacity to believe you were qualified to be President.
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"Allowed" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in this tweet. I would suggest a little more education here before carrying on further...
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