Mises Wire
Author:
Ryan McMaken
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administration openly supported Mikhail Gorbachev’s efforts to hold the Soviet Union together rather than allow the USSR to decentralize into smaller states. The US nationalism—not Soviet despotism—was the real problem for the people of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Indeed, in the case of Ukraine, President George H.W. Bush is convenient for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its European freeloaders, on the other hand, we are told that nationalism is a force for