Gorbachev Brought Down the Berlin Wall and America Built the NATO Wall Around Russia, Chaotic and Bloody Post-Cold War World

  

Gorbachev Brought Down the Berlin Wall and America Built the NATO Wall Around Russia, Chaotic and Bloody Post-Cold War World

Mujeeb Khan

President Mikhail Gorbachev, President Vladimir Putin 

  Mikhail Gorbachev was deeply sad that the cause for which he had worked all his life was lost. The West for which he had dismantled the Soviet Empire and united Germany has turned out to be the enemy of Russia today. The West has started its proxy war against Russia through Ukraine. Today, the West hates Russia more than during the Cold War, although the West dealt with more hardline leaders than President Putin in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. President Putin was a flexible and open-minded leader. President Putin had some reservations about Russia’s place on the world stage. Boris Yeltsin should not have taken over the leadership of Russia after the fall of the Soviet Empire, most of Boris Yeltsin’s time was spent drinking and getting drunk. President Boris Yeltsin had no idea what happening in his country. Most of the problems for the people of Russia were caused by his leadership, as lawlessness, anarchy, chaos, looting of state assets and terrorism started in Russia. Russia was in a worse situation than the fall of the Shah of Iran’s empire in Iran. The economy was so bad that people were forced to beg for a loaf of bread on the streets and in the subway. Just as today Ukraine does not have the funds to pay the salaries of civil servants, the same was the case in Russia at that time. On the other hand, separatist rebellions were rising in the Russian caucuses. The civil war in Chechnya opened the front of the war against Moscow. Chechen terrorism was spreading in Russia, and bombs were going off in Moscow. Hundreds of Russian citizens were killed by Chechen terrorism. Russia owed Germany $80 billion during the Cold War. Russia was in such a bad situation that the Western countries did not like to look at it. A general impression in the West was that it would take a long time for Russia to get out of this situation. By that time, the world will have advanced, and the United States will be the sole power in the world. The lack of leadership in Russia was temporary, but the economic potential was great. The Russians paid this price for the collapse of the Soviet Empire.

  Vladimir Putin became Prime Minister in 1999 in the government of President Boris Yeltsin. Before that, Putin was the director of the Federal Security Service. Putin became acting president after President Boris Yeltsin resigned, and a few months later, Putin became the president of Russia. In the first four years of President Putin’s administration, Russia’s economy grew by 7 percent per year. President Putin ended the Chechen secession war. Chechnya was destroyed in the civil war. President Putin rebuilt it and resettled the Chechens in their homes. It was a great success for President Putin to revive the economy of Chechnya. In a very short period, President Putin paid off Germany’s 80-billion-dollar debt. Along with other sectors of the Russian economy, the oil and gas industry was also developing. Russia had the fastest-growing economy in Europe. Russia has good relations with almost all European countries. Russia has become a major trading partner of the European Union. Therefore, Russia did not make a big issue about its neighbors joining NATO. In the countries of Eastern Europe which join NATO, Russia did not interfere in these countries and did not disturb their democratic system.

  America’s post-Cold War era was the beginning of endless wars instead of promoting peace in the world. The United States had violated the commitment it had made to President Gorbachev that NATO would not expand near Russia’s borders. President Gorbachev ended the Cold War for peace in the world, but the United States looking for new wars in the world. In the first post-Cold War, President George H. Bush launched a preemptive attack on Panama just months after the end of the Cold War, and President Manuel Noriega was handcuffed from his presidential palace and brought to America by the US military. When President Bush was the director of the CIA, President Noriega was an asset to the CIA. During the Cold War, Noriega was used to laundering money in the war against the left in Latin America. This was a serious violation of the Law of Sovereignty. America had set the stage to be the sole power in the world. President George H. Bush deceived President Saddam Hussein by telling him that if he sent his troops into Kuwait, the United States would not do anything, it was an Arab problem, after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, it became America’s problem, and America’s second preemptive war was against Iraq.   The Cold War was over, and America’s depots were full of weapons these weapons now had to be used somewhere, and the Middle East was the best place to use these weapons. In the 30 years since the end of the Cold War, the US and NATO have only been giving the world wars. These weapons are being used in the war on terror. some countries have been destroyed in the name of regime change; some countries have been destroyed as a threat to the security of the United States. in some countries, war has been waged to keep up the supply of arms. A new cold war has become necessary for world peace.