What if Gorbachev had been president of the United States? ...Middle East

Here is a thought experiment: Suppose Mikhail Gorbachev, the USSR’s only president, had been president of the United States instead? Elevated to the Politburo in 1979 because of the rapid turnover and deaths of three geriatric general-secretaries (i.e. leaders of the USSR), Gorbachev was unanimously elected general-secretary at age 54. Because Gorbachev was given various responsibilities during those six years, he came to the realization that the political-economic condition of the Soviet Union was in extremis and could not be sustained indefinitely without fundamental reform. That became his goal. And he understood the resistance that reform faced but also that he had no alternative.

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