Mikhail Gorbachev, “Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union?

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Dear friends: Led by political and economic reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union agreed with presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush to end the cold war and to reduce nuclear arms. A revolt by diehard communists weakened Gorbachev and resulted in Boris Yeltsin and the leaders of Ukraine and Belorussia abolishing the Soviet Union. The removal of the Soviet Union as a countervailing power created a void into which rushed the American Neoconservatives with their ideology of American Empire. The US has been at war ever since, and the Neoconservative drive for Empire is bringing the US into confrontation with Russia and China.

During the time that Gorbachev was working to create conditions for world peace and extending democratic rule to Soviet peoples, the American right-wing demonized Gorbachev as the anti-Christ and accused him of plotting to destroy the United States.

Gorbachev and Reagan cooperated to remove the threat of nuclear war. George W. Bush and Obama have resurrected the threat. I recommend Gorbachev’s account of the serious threat that Washington’s arrogance and hubris pose to the world.

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  1. See what the US ruling military-industrial conglomerate has been doing since 1991! Father Bush unleashed the Gulf war in 1991 that Clinton continued but under a different guise. Then came Bush the Son who started the criminal wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan as there was no international restraining power as before. If the Soviet power were still intact, the American rulers would have thought twice before hurling millions of people in the hell of war and destruction. But the Soviet Union was gone and now the field for predatory wars was open for the American ruling elites and their imperial agenda.

    By: Nasir Khan . February 1, 2012 . 3:20 am |

  2. since coming coming across Paul Craig Roberts the jigsaw of international politics has begun to make sense…another great contributor has been Dimitri Khalezov,The Third Truth,911, who has killed for me the vampire of deceit…this account of the only realistic story i have come across re 911 clarifies the total corruption that exists in the Western Hemisphere…if the Moscovites who are under the influence of western agencies could read the account of their own country mans insight into this extraordinary event they would be less inclined to walk headlong into the serpents mouth or from the frying pan into the fire.In the early 1900′s Russia in the guise of communism was destabilised and destroyed by these same external forces,(UT:The Hidden terror of Jewish Bolshevism and Freemasonry) . Will Putin still be on his feet at the end of this cage fight.My feeling is he will….but i could be wrong.Politics is a dirty business.The sinking of the Kursk,the pride of the Russian navy very soon after his inauguration was his baptism.so it could be his blessing in lifes plan to prepare him for what is to come.What never came out,in order to main his prestige was the disappeaeance of 22 Cruise Granit missiles,with thermonuclear warheads.This is an 8 ton steel missile,known as the ‘flying tank’.One of which was fired at the Pentagon.The strategy was an echo of a similar ruse mounted by the Provisional IRA when they fired blank rockets into Heathrow airport in London,eventually closing it when the British security forces failed to find the timer that was to shoot the second salvo. In 911 there were no planes involved,no Islamic terrorists,much to the chagrin I am sure of some of these wishful thinking fantasists…Nuclear devices were planted in the 60′s in the foundations of the 3 towers.One was not hit but also cascaded like flour as 90% were pulverised to dust by the gamma rays released by an underground nuclear explosion…believe it or not…Jerry

    By: Jerry Casey . February 12, 2012 . 4:51 pm |

  3. What Mikhail Gorbachev – has said – all meets the reality. The cold war II has begun. UK and US needs war as daily water & bred.
    No medicine is available to avoid this mental breakthrough.

    By: docziegler stuttgart/germany . February 20, 2012 . 7:21 am |

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