Not only was KGB Putin on the scene, he was working in East Germany and believed a funder of the Red Brigades terrorists. Yes, international law is very complex: thou shall not invade an innocent sovereign country.

Gorbachev followed Reagan's admonition. The idea came from Reagan not Gorbachev and not Bush. Know all the history well and since family was in the foreign service, I've been there.

Reagan would not salute anyone showing the personality of a dupe looking at everything through a domestic lens and allowing Putin's dream of empire undo via the ChiCom-Russia Alliance his wailing for decades about the "catastrophe" with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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