It's America calling the shots in everything

It's America calling the shots in everything

During the late 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and played a crucial role in the transformation of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev's policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) aimed to reform the Soviet system and improve its economic and political stability. However, as Gorbachev implemented these reforms, it became increasingly clear that the United States was calling the shots in everything, including the fate of the Soviet Union.

The United States had long been engaged in a Cold War with the Soviet Union, a rivalry that had shaped global politics for decades. With the collapse of the Soviet Union looming on the horizon, the United States saw an opportunity to assert its dominance on the world stage. American leaders, including President Ronald Reagan, saw Gorbachev's reforms as a chance to weaken the Soviet Union and bring about its downfall.

Throughout Gorbachev's tenure, the United States exerted significant influence over the Soviet Union. American policymakers provided economic assistance to the Soviet Union, encouraging Gorbachev to adopt market-oriented reforms and open up the Soviet economy to foreign investment. The United States also pressured Gorbachev to make concessions on arms control, leading to the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987.

Furthermore, the United States played a key role in shaping the political landscape of Eastern Europe during this time. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of communist regimes in countries like Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia were seen as victories for American foreign policy. The United States supported pro-democracy movements in these countries and worked to integrate them into the Western economic and political system.