Clearly, former Soviet ruler Gorbachev is smoking something recently legalized in several American states:
Mikhail Gorbachev: George H.W. Bush and I Ended a War Together. But Peace Is Now in Jeopardy
There was no ending the war together. Gorbachev tried to loosen up economic and political controls to perpetuate the USSR and failed. And so the Soviet empire in eastern Europe and then the Soviet empire of old imperial Russia collapsed. The American-led West won, taking communist China along for the ride.
You're welcome China.
What Gorbachev and Bush did together was prevent the collapsing Soviet empire from lashing out with a nuclear spasm in fear of the future and paranoia about what role the West had in the collapse.
Which is good. Thanks to Gorbachev for that. Really.
Note that China learned a lesson from the Soviet defeat and operated the last three decades only on loosened up economic controls--seemingly reversed lately--and continued tight political control (which was demonstrated brutally at Tienanmen Square in 1989).
We'll see how that works out.
Oh, and now the oddly praised Putin is making nuclear threats again, is violating arms control, has invaded two European countries, and is generally effing things up royally.
Gorbachev should be talking to Putin and not to Americans if he truly thinks peace is in jeopardy.
But if Gorbachev believes he helped "end" the Cold War, what are the odds of that happening?
