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Mikhail Gorbachev, the accidental hero : Comments
By Keith Suter, published 1/9/2022Gorbachev's life is a great example of how things never turn out as you expect. He set out to reform the Soviet Union and instead he destroyed it. He was a hero in the West but loathed by the Russians.
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Posted by Bronwyn, Friday, 2 September 2022 1:43:47 AM
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<< Putin tried to join NATO!? What planet are you on Bronwyn? >>
<< … at one point in history, Putin’s Russia wanted to join NATO. “Russia is part of European culture. And I cannot imagine my own country in isolation from Europe and what we often call the civilised world. So it is hard for me to visualise NATO as an enemy,” said Putin, the country’s acting president in 2000, three weeks before the election, which made him president.
The same year, according to the then-NATO chief George Robertson, Putin bluntly asked: “When are you going to invite us to join Nato?” Robertson advised the Russian president that he needs to “apply to join NATO” and not expect an invitation. >>
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/russia-could-have-joined-nato-but-why-didn-t-they-do-it-55561
<< Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that he once raised the possibility of Russia joining NATO with then-President Bill Clinton ... the Russian leader recalls one of his final meetings with Clinton, who left office in January 2001. "During the meeting I said, 'We would consider an option that Russia might join NATO,'" Putin says. "Clinton answered, 'I have no objection.' But the entire U.S. delegation got very nervous." >>
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-says-discussed-joining-nato-with-clinton/28526757.html