Gorbachev hits out at American ‘arrogance’ — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

https://www.rt.com/russia/544313-fall-ussr-us-nato/

… Speaking to RIA Novosti, Gorbachev accused Washington of becoming too
big-headed after the fall of the USSR in 1991, suggesting that Washington got carried away with the “triumphalist sentiment in the West.”

“[The US] became too arrogant, self-confident, and big-headed,” he said. “They
declared victory in the Cold War. We were pulling the world together out of a confrontation, out of a nuclear race. But, instead, the
‘winners’ decided to build a new empire.”

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