[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

[Chris Doss]

Gorbachev was mightily opposed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. As was the governmenr of the United States. I can't say about Reagan personally, as he wasn't president in 1991, but G. H.W. Bush gave a famous "don't break up the USSR" speech in Ukraine. From the POV of Wsahington, dealing with 12 nuclear-armed unstable powers is not preferable to dealing with one nuclear-armed stable power.

--- On Sat, 9/26/09, dredmond at efn.org <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:


> From: dredmond at efn.org <dredmond at efn.org>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Signs of the times
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 9:17 PM
> On Sat, September 26, 2009 3:55 pm,
> martin wrote:
> 
> > wiki says ...
> >
> > Gorbachev's attempts at reform as well as summit
> conferences with
> > United States President Ronald Reagan and his
> reorientation of Soviet
> > strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War,
> ended the political
> > supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
> (CPSU) and led to the
> > dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the
> Nobel Peace Prize in
> > 1990.
> 
> Can't wait for the other shoe to drop:
> 
> "Obama's attempts at reform as well as summit conferences
> with BRIC
> Presidents Hu Jintao, Dmitri Medvedev, Lula da Silva and
> Mammohan Singh
> contributed to the end of the neoliberal era, ended the
> political
> supremacy of neoliberalism (Wall Street) and led to the
> dissolution of the
> US Empire. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016."
> 
> -- DRR
> 
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