Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
1/2 @danelawdave In what way did it have no choice? Of course it had a choice. Gorbachev (or a replacement) could have done what Deng did, and the West would have swallowed it. It is just that your worldview collapses if you admit this, a common problem with dogmatists. — PolitiTweet.org
Davedanelaw @danelawdave
@ClarkeMicah ..and the Politburo, given the economic reality, made that calculation, war gamed every permutation an… https://t.co/CiXMbbWvej