Tag Archives: Gorbachev

  Herland Report: Cold War Resurrected: My obituary of Gorbachev brought interview requests from three major Russian media organizations. At the risk of being labeled “a Russian agent” I accepted. It was an interesting experience. Russians tend to see NATO on Russia’s border’s as Gorbachev’s fault for not getting in writing the George H. W. Bush administration’s guarantee that NATO …

  Herland Report: Mikhail Gorbachev was the first President of the Soviet Union and the last Soviet leader. He was the best of the younger generation of Communist Party members who understood, like US President Ronald Reagan, the futility of the Cold War and the needless threat of nuclear Armageddon. Gorbachev also understood that the repressions and hardships of the …

  Herland Report: China pushes foreign policy agenda: With the whole Western economy in lock down, almost every county, every town facing the worst financial catastrophe in a century, China was smart enough to only shut down the epicenter of one city, Wuhan and corresponding areas. China now leads the world as president of the People’s Republic, Xi Jinping spearheads …