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Gorbachev Compares Putin-Trump Meeting To His Meeting With Reagan
TASS ^
| 07/09/2017
| TASS
Posted on 07/08/2017 8:37:45 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: chitchat; detente; g20; germany; gorbachev; putin; reagan; russia; tass; trump; trumpg20summit; trumprussia
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.
To: goldstategop
"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.
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posted on
07/08/2017 8:40:20 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: goldstategop
Hopefully, it works out as well.
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posted on
07/08/2017 8:40:58 PM PDT
by
TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
To: goldstategop
Ah Reykjavik. Remember the media becoming unhinged when Reagen walked out.
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posted on
07/08/2017 8:46:45 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(I'm tired of the Cult of Clinton. Wish she would just pass out the Koolaide)
To: goldstategop
Ah, Mikhail Gorbachev. One of history’s great losers...
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posted on
07/08/2017 9:06:47 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: goldstategop
Does this creep still live in the Bay area?
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posted on
07/08/2017 9:15:49 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: goldstategop
The MSM that once had Gorbasms over Gorby won’t report this.
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posted on
07/08/2017 9:19:03 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: goldstategop
That would be Former President or just President Regan not EX geeesh who writes this stuff.
To: BenLurkin
“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.
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posted on
07/08/2017 9:20:47 PM PDT
by
JPJones
(There is no Law but Constitutional Law, and America is Its Agent)
To: goldstategop
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.
To: JPJones
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posted on
07/08/2017 9:44:34 PM PDT
by
atc23
(The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
To: fhayek
I think Gorbachev is losing his darling status with the Left. They’ve moved on.
To: rightwingcrazy
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...
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posted on
07/08/2017 9:56:41 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: fhayek
I miss the days when the press liked Russian leaders.
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posted on
07/08/2017 10:12:14 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
To: goldstategop
to his meeting with ex-President of the United States Ronald ReaganHe was NOT an ex-president when Gorbachev met him. Better would be then-president.
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posted on
07/09/2017 12:59:57 AM PDT
by
arthurus
To: easternsky
Well, Tass is Russian and perhaps they are not totally fluent with the English.
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posted on
07/09/2017 1:01:29 AM PDT
by
arthurus
To: easternsky
He wasn’t a Former President when G met him. Then-president would be more accurate for the situation.
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posted on
07/09/2017 1:03:13 AM PDT
by
arthurus
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Ah Reykjavik. Remember the media becoming unhinged when Reagen walked out. Yup. Laughed my keister off at the lame media! (still do....)
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posted on
07/09/2017 5:21:57 AM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: atc23
“Climate Change = $$$$”
And Communists are the greediest bastards on earth.
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posted on
07/09/2017 9:07:39 AM PDT
by
JPJones
(There is no Law but Constitutional Law, and America is Its Agent)
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