Gorbachev Compares Putin-Trump Meeting To His Meeting With Reagan

TASS ^ | 07/09/2017 | TASS

[goldstategop]

Ex-President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev compared the meeting between Russian and US leaders Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg to his meeting with ex-President of the United States Ronald Reagan. The politician made such a statement in an interview with Italian publicist Giulietto Chiesa posted on Globalist portal on Saturday.

"I recall when we started the disarmament dialog with Ronald Reagan, I was told in several days after first contacts that US naval vessels entered the Black Sea and approached territorial waters of the Soviet Union. I was asked, "What shall we do?" I understood immediately this was a provocation: someone in the Pentagon did not want that dialog," Gorbachev said.

Handshaking between Putin and Trump is a positive signal, the ex-President said. "This opportunity should not be missed. It will be challenging but this meeting is very important. It may become a starting point to deliver results seemed to be unachievable now," Gorbachev said.

[goldstategop]

Interesting look at Hamburg vs Reykjavik in the 1980s when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met then President Ronald Reagan. That meeting didn't lead to a nuclear arms reduction deal at the time but it triggered profound changes neither side foresaw at time. Hopefully, the meeting between Trump and Putin in Hamburg is a good omen for the future.

[Texas Eagle]

"I recall when we started the disarmament dialog with Ronald Reagan, I was told in several days after first contacts that US naval vessels entered the Black Sea and approached territorial waters of the Soviet Union. I was asked, "What shall we do?" I understood immediately this was a provocation: someone in the Pentagon did not want that dialog," Gorbachev said.

What a dumbass. Reagan was poking you in the eye, you moronski.

[TBP]

Hopefully, it works out as well.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Ah Reykjavik. Remember the media becoming unhinged when Reagen walked out.

[fhayek]

Ah, Mikhail Gorbachev. One of history’s great losers...

[BenLurkin]

Does this creep still live in the Bay area?

[laplata]

The MSM that once had Gorbasms over Gorby won’t report this.

[easternsky]

That would be Former President or just President Regan not EX geeesh who writes this stuff.

[JPJones]

“Does this creep still live in the Bay area?”

Don’t know, but like ALL ex-communists, he now heads up a “climate change” think tank/trust fund.

[hinckley buzzard]

The Reykjavik summit was reported at the time as a disastrous defeat for Reagan, because he did not submit to yet one more meaningless "joint communique."

The truth is that it was the tipping point for the ultimate victorious end to the Cold War as we had known it for forty years.

[atc23]

Climate Change = $$$$

[rightwingcrazy]

I think Gorbachev is losing his darling status with the Left. They’ve moved on.

[fhayek]

The left has no long term successes. No short term ones for that matter. Cuba, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Venezuela, the Eastern bloc. Yeah, tough to defend...

[Defiant]

I miss the days when the press liked Russian leaders.

[arthurus]

to his meeting with ex-President of the United States Ronald Reagan

He was NOT an ex-president when Gorbachev met him. Better would be then-president.

[arthurus]

Well, Tass is Russian and perhaps they are not totally fluent with the English.

[arthurus]

He wasn’t a Former President when G met him. Then-president would be more accurate for the situation.

[jeffc]

Ah Reykjavik. Remember the media becoming unhinged when Reagen walked out.

Yup. Laughed my keister off at the lame media! (still do....)

[JPJones]

“Climate Change = $$$$”

And Communists are the greediest bastards on earth.