Word: itness
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A. I'm using it now instead of "East Europeans." East Europe was the geopolitical designation for a reality that is now disappearing.
A. No, it isn't. But if things in Central Europe or the Soviet Union go wrong, which they could, I don't think we'll see a return to an assertive, confident, Stalinist renewal. Instead, we'll probably see a turn toward some highly nationalistic form of dictatorship, perhaps...
That's why it is so urgent for us, the West, collectively, to give this turbulence a chance to work itself out constructively in the direction of some form of pluralist democracy. So far, we have not responded in a manner that does justice to the magnitude of the opportunity...
Suppose we save $20 billion to $30 billion in defense spending on Europe in the next few years. Let's dedicate a third or a fourth of that to a Central European Recovery Fund. If we make a substantial contribution, I think the Europeans will more than match it, and...
At the same time, I left the Soviet Union with a sense of deep foreboding. We're getting to a point where Gorbachev and his colleagues will have to make some fundamental choices, all of them very difficult and all of them pregnant with dangers. He will either have to...