In 1978, Ukraine's current president, Zelinsky, was born, while Reagan, who was far away in the United States, was serving as governor of The largest state, California. When Zelinsky was two years old, Reagan was elected president. Fifteen years after Reagan's death, Zelinsky was elected president of Ukraine.
Zelinsky and Reagan have nothing to do with each other, so why put Zelinsky and Reagan together? But both have the same identity: actor. However, Zelinsky's acting skills are incomparable with Reagan's, which is a thousand miles behind. Reagan is definitely the number one in the world in acting, and no one can compare. Why?
Because when Reagan became president, he not only completely disintegrated the Soviet Union, but also laid the foundation for the collapse of the Soviet Union. Although the Soviet Union collapsed when Bush was president, in fact Bush Sr. came to reap the fruits.
Today we are not going to explore how high Reagan's "acting" is, but mainly to see how he interacts with Gorbachev and how to fool Gorbachev.
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After Reagan became president, he was an actor in the eyes of the outside world, and his political experience would not be too much. But no one expected that Reagan's political experience was very rich, whether it was being governor at home, or from the Democratic Party to the Conservative Party, and Reagan's promotion of American interests in the international community, all of which Reagan almost achieved, and the most surprising thing was that the collapse of the Soviet Union was directly related to Reagan.
On March 5, 1946, Churchill delivered the famous "Iron Curtain Speech", which led to the beginning of the Cold War between East and West. In the Cold War, the most typical competition between the United States and other Western countries and the Soviet Union was the "arms race." In the eyes of the United States, Britain and other countries, the Soviet Union was already strong and could not be defeated, and it was necessary to find a way to weaken it, so it wanted to use the arms race to drag down the Soviet Union, the purpose of which was to force the Soviet Union to invest heavily in the development of weapons through the upgrading of weapons and equipment.
After the arms race began, the West envisioned that the Soviet Union would spend a lot of money on the military, causing other industries to weaken and eventually be dragged down. But after an arms race, the West suddenly discovered that the Soviet Union not only did not weaken, but became a military power, and even surpassed the United States in some aspects.
Why was the Soviet Union not dragged down?
At that time, the United States and Britain could be said to be panicked, and they did not expect in any way that they did not drag down the Soviet Union, but brought a lot of money to the Soviet Union, because there were many buyers in Soviet arms sales. Later studies in the United States found that the reason why the Soviet Union was not dragged down was that it could be said to catch up with the good times. Since the 1960s, the United States entered Vietnam, but unexpectedly fell into the Vietnam War, while the Soviet Union did not suffer losses, and continued to expand its power, competing with the United States for spheres of influence. What made the United States regret the most was that the Soviet Union caught up with the good era of oil, when global oil prices soared, because the Middle East War needed oil, the United States Vietnam War also needed oil, and finally the Soviet Union benefited from the arms race.
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In the 1980s, Reagan, an actor, ran for president as governor of California, and eventually became the first president in American history to be an actor.
Reagan was not optimistic at the time, but after Reagan came to power, several tricks in succession let people see that this person was not simple, and even brought his acting skills into politics and used it very maturely.
After analyzing the reasons why the Soviet Union benefited from the arms race, Reagan immediately adjusted his strategy. The first trick was to bring down the price of oil and cut off the Soviet Union's financial resources. Reagan's aides continued to lobby oil-producing powers such as the Middle East to increase their oil production in large quantities through lure such as military aid and economic aid, so that oil prices fell sharply, which was the oil war in the early 1980s.
In Reagan's vision, the Soviet Union, when it could not make money from oil, would find a way to turn to the West. If that happens, then the oil war is successful.
In the face of the global oil price plummeted, the Soviet Union initially did not feel it, but then the Soviet Union tasted the pain and the economy declined. The duration of the oil war coincided with Gorbachev's administration, and it was also the time when Gorbachev was preparing to make a big show.
In Gorbachev's eyes, Reagan is not worth mentioning, can an actor's political experience be stronger than his?
Gorbachev looked away, and the U.S. oil war hit the Soviet Union's "seven inches." Soviet oil could not be sold and was mired in the war in Afghanistan. At this time, the United States had long since withdrawn from Vietnam, and now it was the turn of the Soviet Union to feel uncomfortable.
However, at this time, Gorbachev still liked to associate with Reagan and did not see the American intentions. But Reagan had already made a detailed plan to suppress the Soviet Union. This plan is known only to himself, the CIA director, the secretary of state and others, and the outside world is not clear at all.
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Reagan was also happy to associate with Gorbachev, who and Margaret Thatcher believed were the best people for the West. But suitable for the right, the West can communicate with him, with aid, global rewards and so on to constantly fool Gorbachev, giving Gorbachev the face of the head of state, so that Gorbachev can see that the West is the paradise he wants to seek.
In the exchange between Reagan and Gorbachev, he began a grand plan, which was the "Star Wars" plan, which was actually a virtual plan of Reagan, that is, to fool the Soviet Union and fool the Soviet Union. It's another version of the arms race, it's just a U.S. bluff, but the Soviet Union is really fighting. At this time, in addition to constantly talking with Reagan about restricting missiles, Gorbachev thought that the Soviet Union had good measures to deal with the US "Star Wars", but Gorbachev had no chance.
According to internal information, the inside story of the "Star Wars" plan is only known to Reagan and a few other people around him, and no one knows the real inside story, and it is really strictly confidential. This is also a factor in Gorbachev's easy deception.
Practice has proved that in the new round of the arms race, the Soviet Union has embarked on the road of no return, while the United States has further disintegrated the Soviet Union in a bluff, and the Soviet Union has been weakening. Gorbachev thought that aid from the United States and other Western countries would continue to come in, but he did not expect that all he was waiting for was the collapse of the Soviet Union. Of course, the West also gave aid to the Soviet Union, but the conditions were harsh, and it was difficult for Gorbachev to achieve it.
The "Star Wars" program was Reagan's proudest move and hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union. But Reagan also proposed a liberal economic strategy, and Margaret Thatcher later blew a trumpet in support of Reagan. Reagan's liberal economy was globally admired, but some countries did not know that this was again an American routine. Curiously, Gorbachev also promoted this economic approach, which also laid hidden dangers for the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union.
All in all, when Gorbachev was in the middle of nowhere, he didn't know that he was in the American condom and was fooled by Reagan.
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