Posted on 07/06/2017 4:00:58 PM PDT by HLPhat
Moscow (AFP) - The last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, on Thursday urged Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to restore trust between the United States and Russia a day ahead of their first meeting in Hamburg.
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We have every reason to believe they will Mr. Gorbachev.
Where does Garbachev live ? Just wondering.
Does Hiltery Rotten Clinton have another reset button they can borrow?
Waiting for the Gorbasm alert theme music...
“From the interview: “Her death, after several years of ill-health, left Gorbachev bereft. He lives in Moscow, has not remarried and finds solace with his daughter and grand-daughters. He would not be coaxed to talk about Raisa, except fleetingly in the context of the charity.”[56]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev#Health
Gorbachev wanted to preserve the USSR as a federal and democratic state. Communist hardliners and ethnic separatists had other ideas.
He helped to end the Cold War. Russians see him however as the man who destroyed the big country in part through his bungling and left them to face severe hardship when most of the country’s wealth was looted by oligarchs in the face of a sudden transition to a market economy.
I doubt he’ll get the same regard when he is gone Yeltsin got a decade ago.
I heard Cokie Roberts give out her views on Trump meeting Putin and she sounded ominous. The liberals are in as tizzy playing the expectation game.
How long will they talk, forty minutes, an hour? Evidently, according to the liberals, if Putin does not break down in tears and apologize for”making Trump president” then it will mean that Trump has utterly failed and should fly back to Florida and remain on his golf course.
Or maybe nothing less than a thermonuclear exchanbge between the two powers will assuage their appetite for meaningful results.
Trust can start with Russia endin their invasion of Ukraine, get f out of Crimea!
I think Putin and Co have acted with considerable restraint in response to the Nazi bait installed in Ukraine by Comrade Chairman Obama and Co.
YMMV.
>>I wish we would leave Syria to the Russians
And let the petrodollar be replaced with a petroruble?
Maybe a better strategy would be to work with Russia,China, and others in securing the stability of the currency of global trade... instead of manufacturing crISIS for the convenience and profitability of the Military Industrial L.I.F.E.R. termites embedded in the deep state woodwork.
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