We all thought it was hilarious.
Posted on 08/30/2022 1:41:37 PM PDT by jroehl
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 92, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials as saying on Tuesday.
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It should be noted that when the Russian empire collapsed, no one attacked them.
We all thought it was hilarious.
I think it was Alexis de Tocqueville who says that the most dangerous time for a bad regime is when it begins to reform. The decrepit Soviet Union might have continued longer without “perestroika” or “glasnost” and if the leaders were willing to use whatever force was necessary to maintain control.
It should be noted that when the Russian empire collapsed, no one attacked them.
Actually, we kinda did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force,_Siberia
At least france is consistent.
One last Gorbasm for old time sake from the drive-bys.
It's a bit like the scene in the Bible after the death of Solomon, when the northern tribes ask the new king, Rehoboam, to lighten up the tax burden. He tells them, "My father beat you with whips--I will beat you with scorpions." As a result, they revolted.
Agree, but Gorbachev opened a window that Regan looked into. There is no doubt that Reagan’s pressure moved it along. Earlier Soviet leaders would have dug their heels in and wouldn’t have budged, no matter how their people (and eastern Europe’s people) were hurt in the process.
Gorbachev was the right leader at the right time, and it was a joint project between he and Reagan…
What is the matter with you noobs posting the most tendentious agitprop MSM garbage on breaking news and then running the hell away from your own thread? You’re just another punk coward. *spit*
They'd have a heck of a basketball team, that's for sure.
I made it myself using imgflip. Grab the URL and save it for future use (I hide such things on my Free Republic home page) because I doubt it will be searchable in the future.
But it’s very easy to make animated gifs with imgflip from a YouTube url, and you can add as many titles as you wish.
I also use imgflip to create custom memes from still images. Most of the smartass memes you see from me I whip up from imgflip.
While Bush '41 was his VP, RR was not part of the GOPe. He showed that in the GOP Candidate Debate for the NH Primary in 1980. After an FEC (Federal Election Commission) ruling that the debate sponsorship, by the Nashua Telegraph, was illegal, RR financed the debate out of his own funds. However, since all of the arrangements were already there and the primary was in 3 days, the moderators remained from the newspaper. What happened next made Reagan history and showed that RR was not a knock-over!
At the start time, for unannounced reasons, the moderator(s) wanted to exclude the other GOP candidates of Sens Howard Baker & Bob Dole, Reps John Anderson & Philip Crane and TX Gov John Connally, leaving only Reagan & Bush. When RR came in with several of these candidates and wanted them included, the argument got so heated that the moderator ordered the sound to Reagan's mike shut off. That was when sound byte history was made; "Mr. Green...you asked me if you would... I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Green!" (Note: that man was actually Jon Breen, the executive editor of The Telegraph of Nashua.)
At the 50+ year distance, we forget that this was Reagan's SECOND run for the candidacy and that it was NH that had knocked him back against President Jerry Ford in 1976 under the cloud of 'spoiled ballots'. Sound familiar? Here at this New Hampshire Primary, RR was behind and Bush was trumpeting his Iowa win by 2% (Big Mo) over Reagan, 5 weeks earlier. Additionally, Bush was the local favorite son in NH, having campaigned frequently from his Maine home. Another similarity to Trump is that he, Reagan, was great 'copy' for the MSM but it was always mixed with antagonism against his conservative and pro-America issues of a rebuilding military and economy.
Here is a thought for us to remember. In both of his successful campaigns in 1980 & 84, Reagan was always asked if he was too old for the office. He left office around 2 weeks short of his 78th birthday. Joe Biden will turn 80 this coming November.
“Trump drops little slights at Reagan occassionally...”
I think it would be difficult to find anyone who has watched Trump speak more than me, and I have never heard him say anything about Reagan that could be considered a slight.
The conversation is about the post WWII empire and that expeditionary force was not an invasion.
You missed the little one or two-sentence slights, I have wondered what they were about and it seems to be testing the waters of some sort.
Who ended the cold war? I don’t think is was Gorbechev.
Complete rewrite of history. Gorbachev gets all the credit.
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