Politics As Usual

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Uh, because both Lincoln and Gorbachev were INSIDE the country and could DIRECTLY AFFECT the laws etc. etc. of the country. The US applied economic pressure to the USSR, causing them to change their laws. The countries that had been economically intertwined with the South before the Civil War helped determine the outcome of that war by foregoing trade with the South in lieu of actively evading or otherwise dealing with Northern blockades.

I'm not saying that Reagan was at all inconsequential to the fall of the USSR. I'm just saying that your Lincoln analogy is inapposite.

oh Fringe, you're wrong.
Gorbachev = Jeff Davis