Posted on 12/04/2014 12:31:38 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Mr Gorbachev said there was still time to defuse the standoff between Moscow and the West, as he and his western counterparts had done during the Perestroika period.
“Now there are once again signs of a Cold War,” he said in an interview with Tass, the state-owned news agency. “This process can and must be stopped. After all, we did it in the 1980s. We opted for de-escalation, for the reunification (of Germany). And back then it was a lot tougher than now. So we could do it again.”
Mr Gorbachev, 83, who has run a civil society foundation since he retired from politics, said he thought the United States was largely to blame for the confrontation today. “I don’t want to praise our government too much,” he said. “It has also made quite a few errors, but today the danger comes from the American position. They are tortured by triumphalism.”
The former Soviet president did not mention Ukraine explicitly but hinted at the conflict, where western states support the pro-European government while Russia has thrown its weight behind rebels in the Russophone east of the country.
“It’s a good thing that the president [Vladimir Putin] has taken care of security, strengthened our defence potential, developed weaponry and upgraded the army,” he said. “Now we are armed, so if it necessary we can respond in kind. But I think that is not our task now. Signs of a new Cold War have appeared and the whole process must be stopped.”
It was “not too late” to ratchet down the confrontation, he said. The right people would “be found” in Europe to build a new world order and halt the “avid militarists”. “For now it is going in the opposite direction,” he added.
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Zero is more of a Communist than Gorby (and yes, Gorby is one).
The media gets to have another “Gorbasm.”
“It’s a good thing that the president [Vladimir Putin] has taken care of security, strengthened our defence potential, developed weaponry and upgraded the army,” he said. “Now we are armed, so if it necessary we can respond in kind. But I think that is not our task now. Signs of a new Cold War have appeared and the whole process must be stopped.”What's his FR nick?
The interview was with TASS which means it has a part in Russia’s state propaganda plans. Looks like Putin is trying to win back moderate peacenik wing through presenting Gorby.
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