Gorbachev effectively. In other words, there is an admission of Gorbachev's ability to influence in his favour a wider section of the western world. Robert Kaiser opines otherwise, that even if Gorbachev succeeds, the USSR will remain poor, backward and not competitive. Hence the USSR will not be a threat to the west in the future.
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