[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.

[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.

[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.