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Gorbachev and Reagan

Gorbachev and Reagan
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Superpower Summit 1985 At their meeting U.S. President Regan and Soviet leader Gorbachev vigorously debated arms control and the many issues that separated their governments. Smiling frequently for the press and locked in an intense campaign for public support, especially in western Europe, they agreed only to meet again (Wide World Photos)
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A HISTORY OF WESTERN SOCEITY
4 years ago. Edited 6 months ago.
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. . . .In the 1980s, American voters developed a genuine emotional attachment to Ronald Reagan, but that emotional attachment may have blurred a more detached and discerning assessment -- not of his politics, but of his health. In a startling passage of his 2005 book, ‘The Wisdom Paradox’ neuroscientist Elkhonon Goldberg claims to have spotted unmistakable signs of early Alzheimer’s disease in Regan while he was still in office, simply by watching several public appearances. Since Goldberg assess dementia for a living at New York University School of Medicine, this can’t be dismissed as an armchair diagnosis. Watching Regan nod off during George H. W. Bush’s inauguration, Goldberg said to himself, “Brain Stem gone.” He added, “I was convinced that a significant portion of Regan’s second term had taken place in the shadow of his slippage toward early dementia.” How good a political guide are out emotions if they prevent us from discerning a politician’s deepening cognitive deficits (or any other serious flaw, for that matter)?

WISDOM
3 years ago. Edited 6 months ago.
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Nuclear winter seized attention because it blew away the position -- built up over the years by strategists on both sides -- that nuclear war could be survivable, let alone winnable. New Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was shaken by the argument, as was President Regan, who said that the nuclear war “could just end up in no victory for anyone because we would wipe out the Earth as we know it.” The stakes of nuclear conflict were now plausibly infinite. “A nuclear war imperils all of our descendants, for as long as there will be humans,” Sagan wrote in 1983. “Extinction is the undoing of the human enterprise.” ~ Page 112

Surely though, there’s some kind of military plan to handle an alien invasion, one that might bring all of humanity together, finally fighting on the same side? President Ronald Reagan told an audience of high school students in Maryland in 1985 that the arrival of hostile aliens might broker peace between the United States and the Soviet Union. “If suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the univers,” he said, “we’d forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries and we would find our once and for all that we really are all human beings here on Earth together. ~ Page 291 ( “End Times” ~ Bryan Welsh - author)

END TIMES
22 months ago. Edited 6 months ago.
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In the Soviet Union, General Secretary Gorbachev emerged as a new kind of leader. President Regan recognized in Gorbachev a different mind-set and the potential to help forge a new era in U.s - Soviet relations, one of genuine progress between the two major world powers. Though there was still fundamental chasms between the two superpowers, for the most part the relationship took on a more civil tone and for the first time there was a real sense that change might indeed be possible. ~ Page 276

FORTY AUTUMNS
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This was the closest call since the Cuban crisis in 1962, and it left both Regan and Thatcher eager to engage the Soviet circle again. Fortunately for both, the leader of politburo appointed in 1985 was Mikhail Gorbachev – ‘the sort of guy you can do business with’, Thatcher’s advisers thought. More fortunately still, after four decades, containment had finally boxed the Soviet economy into such a corner that Miscow found itself forced into a going-out-of-business sale. With his revenues failing just as the West ramped up another arms race, Gorbachev tried to revive growth by liberalising and holding an audit of empire. When this concluded that imperialism did little for the Soviet economy, Gorbachev cut half a million men from the army, retreated from Afghanistan, scrapped his intermediate- range missiles and announced what some called the ‘Sinatra Doctrine’ – each East European government must do communism its own way, without Soviet support against its own people. In just 1989 Hungarians rolled up the barbed wire along their border with the West; five months later, the Berlin Wall came down. The Soviet Empire had dissolved even faster than the British. ~ Page 438

GEOGRAPHY IS DESTINY
5 months ago. Edited 5 months ago.