The Coup collapsed thanks to resistance from Moscow citizens.
Bush also insisted on the reunification of Germany when everyone was saying we’d have to keep the Russians in East Germany.
German Reunification was led by Helmut Kohl, if anything Bush's insistence that a reunified Germany remain in NATO made it more difficult, that was quite unpopular in Germany.
The collapse of the Soviet Union meant Yeltsin had little money left for the Russian military, the last of which left Germany in 1994 ahead of schedule and leaving behind a toxic waste dump.
Bush faced a Democrat Congress his entire presidency, which is why he agreed to $1 in tax increases for every $3 in budget reductions. This resulted in budget surpluses, including in the Clinton years.
Read My Lips has to be the biggest unforced gaffe by an American President in the past 50 years...
The coalition against Iraq was masterful, and people forget how vehemently every step was opposed by the media.
And this wonderful coalition turned out to be the reason given for Saddam being left in power in 91'.
I thought another gaffe, was the kinder, gentler nation thing. I didn’t know for sure, but I thought he meant we would be softer on our enemies.
The so-called budget reductions were in the out years. Bush and his Democrat buddies knew they would NEVER come to pass. The tax increase was immediate. The whole thing was a scam on the American people knowingly entered into by Bush and not surprisingly gobbled up by the dim witted electorate. It still got Bush tossed and the evil Clinton elected, but The Bushs and the Clintons had far more in common than the had disagreements over. New world order etc.