PoliticalChic
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Ronald Reagan knew days in advance of the official announcement that Mikhail Gorbachev planned to declare Glasnost and remove the Berlin Wall. As soon as the CIA informed him of it he called a press conference in which he made the now famous, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" statement, thereby assuming the status of a crowing rooster taking credit for causing the sun to rise.On this day, in 1987
In front of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, President Ronald Reagan declared, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. It took two years before the wall came down.
With vision and strength of will, this President defeated the 'Evil Empire' without firing a shot.
If Reagan deserves credit for anything it's the dramatic enrichment of the Military Industrial Complex. But credit for deciding to re-unite Germany goes to Mr. Gorbachev -- a true Twentieth Century statesman who never has received the recognition he deserves.
Really?
See if this sounds like "Mikhail Gorbachev planned to declare Glasnost and remove the Berlin Wall."
"The 1980s were a dangerous time for the world. The Soviet Union stood at the peak of its military and political power, its nuclear forces ranged from pole to pole. The globe stood at the brink of World War III, with a final countdown of 25 minutes from launch to total thermonuclear combat.
The Soviet Union led the world with an extraordinary increase in nuclear and conventional arms. The Soviet Union had 4.9 million active soldiers, 42,000 tanks, 2,200 warships, 15,000 combat planes, 1,500 long-range nuclear-tipped missiles, 1,000 short-range nuclear missiles and 900 sub-based nuclear missiles.
Soviet bombers equipped with nuclear weapons frequently flew off the U.S. coast. Soviet submarines armed with nuclear-tipped missiles prowled off both U.S. coastlines, within 100 miles of the most populated coastal American cities.
In Europe, the Soviets had 10 tank divisions in East Germany alone, backed by another 20 tank divisions poised across the border in Poland and Russia. Thousands of armored vehicles were ready to pour across the Fulda Gap and flow into West Germany.
During one Soviet armored exercise in East Germany, an Army general once commented to me that he could walk from the East German border to Poland on Soviet tanks, never touching the earth beneath them.
All evidence pointed to the Soviet intent to achieve total world domination in every dimension of military power."
The Legacy of Ronald Reagan Peace
Again?
"All evidence pointed to the Soviet intent to achieve total world domination[/B] in every dimension of military power."
Wise up.