{"id":26812,"date":"2026-01-04T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=26812"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:37:50","slug":"26812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=26812","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Bush set out the American demands. He pushed Gorbachev to halt assistance to Fidel Castro&#8217;s Cuba and the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. This was top of the US list of priorities. The Soviet team was surprised. Gorbachev wanted to draw a &#8222;strategic and philosophical&#8220; line under the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Vladislav M. Zubok, <em>Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union<\/em>, (Yale University Press, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2022), 96<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here Zubok is writing about Bush and Gorbachev meeting near Malta in December 1989. Topping the US list of priorities is Soviet support for Cuba and Nicaragua. I remember those years of incessant drumbeats insisting Americans fear impoverished <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Central Americans<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush set out the American demands. He pushed Gorbachev to halt assistance to Fidel Castro&#8217;s Cuba and the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. This was top of the US list of priorities. The Soviet team was surprised. Gorbachev wanted to draw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=26812\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}