The Russian Point of View Written by: Darrell Castle, Esq. - 2016 Constitution Party Presidential candidate and National Executive Committee Member
Thirty-one years ago, the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, and the Premier or leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, met to discuss a possible deal to allow the Soviet Union, which was financially broke and desperate, to end peacefully and with dignity. The deal was that the 16 Soviet satellites or colonies would become separate independent countries. East Germany would remain divided, but the wall would come down and then the two countries would be completely integrated.
Reagan agreed that NATO would not expand beyond its present boundaries at that time. In other words, the Soviet colonies, now freed, would not become part of NATO. No NATO or U.S. troops would be stationed in the Russian borderland countries, and both sides would keep those countries free of offensive missiles. That part of the agreement was later formalized in a treaty to ban intermediate range missiles from that part of Europe.
American presidents have denied the authenticity or even existence of the agreement, but Secretary of State James Baker was there, and he took notes, so denial of the deal only adds to the hypocrisy. The deal was made to give the world a sigh of relief from the long, expensive, and very dangerous cold war in which mutually assured destruction was the order of the day. It came after a long series of dour, hardline Russian leaders and ended with the eloquent, Westernized Gorbachev, who was succeeded by the disastrous Boris Yeltsin.
President Clinton reportedly took advantage of Yeltsin because of his greed and most of all his alcoholism. NATO began its continual march to the east and to Russia’s border. During that time, the U.S. withdrew from the Intermediate Range Missile Ban Treaty and moved missiles to Poland and Romania. Yeltsin held power for about 10 years, and then power was transferred to a former colonel in the KGB European Division, Vladimir Putin. Mr. Putin set out to rebuild Russia’s reputation and status as a great nation, and his first tactic was to divert a large part of the Russian GDP to modernizing the Russian military....................
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