The collapse of the Soviet Union was engineered by Ronald Reagan. He attacked their weakness, their economy, by (among other things) demanding hard currency for grain. The Soviet military build up created a huge weakness that Reagan exploited.
Democracy has pre-requisites. It takes a moral and educated people and some trust. Some places in the world don't have those.
The collapse of the Soviet Union was engineered by Ronald Reagan. He attacked their weakness, their economy, by (among other things) demanding hard currency for grain. The Soviet military build up created a huge weakness that Reagan exploited.
Democracy has pre-requisites. It takes a moral and educated people and some trust. Some places in the world don't have those.
The collapse of the Soviet Union was engineered by Ronald Reagan. He attacked their weakness, their economy, by (among other things) demanding hard currency for grain. The Soviet military build up created a huge weakness that Reagan exploited.
Democracy has pre-requisites. It takes a moral and educated people and some trust. Some places in the world don't have those.
My abject apology, forgot Regan was the evil genius who felled the USSR and led us, inevitably, to the current moment.
Oh yeah. Events are unfolding just as Reagan planned them 40 years ago :-).