Flashback: Reagan Flubs Reykjavik Summit

Rolling Stone ^ | December 4, 1986 | WILLIAM GREIDER

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Greider used to be a correspondent for the Washington Post. Over the years he has become a fixture in the “socialist” media melieu and at some conferences.

This has happened to several key WP foreign correspondents to, sadly including Peter Osnos, Glen Frankel, Sandinista-lover Karen De Young (still the foreign editor of the WP), I think H.D. Greenway has gone to the far left, and another of their Moscow correspondents.

That would explain a lot of things about the far-left orientation of the WP.

[EdnaMode]

Thanks. Jack Posobiec tweeted about it earlier tonight. That really puts the left’s reaction in perspective.

[no-s]

“The real impact of Star Wars would not be eternal peace but a dizzying new competition in arms. Wasteful. Damaging to our economy and theirs. “

hahahahahahahahaha. bummer how the truth was just like right there in front of him and he disdained it to support the establishment perspective.

[Slyfox]

The truth is Ronald Reagan went into the meeting with Gorbachov knowing that he had to hold the line. Everyone told him to give in to the Soviet leader. He left the meeting knowing that it would have been so much easier to just give in. But he didn't.

Gorbachov went back to his country realizing that Reagan was not going to budge, that he was going to keep on building up American defenses, including SDI, to a point where the Soviets would not be able to keep up. He knew that they were doomed.

So, Reagan did not "flub" anything. He instead broke the back of the Cold War.

[Gideon7]

What I saw in 1986 of the news media dancing gleefully over Reagan’s `failure’ in his meeting with Gorbachev in Reykjavik in 1986 versus Trump’s meeting with Putin in Helsinki yesterday was one of degree only. They are even more unhinged now.

[SuperLuminal]

Reykjavik was the first ten nails in the Soviet Union's coffin...

The Soviet collapse was started at Reykjavik when the first "American" in almost a century had the balls to stand up to the commie scum...Despite the heavily communist-infiltrated State Dept...

[SuperLuminal]

Reykjavik was the first ten nails in the Soviet Union's coffin...

The Soviet collapse was started at Reykjavik when the first "American" in almost a century had the balls to stand up to the commie scum...Despite the heavily communist-infiltrated State Dept...

[gattaca]

bmp

[Yaelle]

How are the media and their bosses so stupid? Don’t they see this is the same?

[trebb]

Lots of folks are terrified of what Putin might have told Trump during the private meeting.......would be sweet irony if they collude” and it ends up taking down the Deep State and drains the Swamp...

[hinckley buzzard]

This is a fantastic post. Thanks much for finding it.. The fact is, as history now attests, that Reagan won the Cold War, single handedly, without a drop of blood spilled, at Reykjavik.

Many sane peop/le knew it at the time. But the media as usual got it about 180 degrees wrong.