(Archived document, may contain errors) 540 I October 21, 1986 I I WHILE OPPOSING REAGAN'S SDI MOSCOW PUSHES. ITS OWN STAR WA:RS I INTRODUCTION At the Iceland summit with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan chose not to trade away the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) for a reduction of nuclear arms that, while substantial, would still leave the U.S. vulnerable to nuclear attack.
that mass information makes individuals completely blindst for everything that goes against what the group believes in. but there is two other characteristics and they re also extremely important. and the first one is that people in the grip of mass formation, they seem to lose all awareness ofual their individual interests. they are prepared to radical toally radical self-sacrifice. that s extremely strangestic whi and then the third characteristic, which is most problematic is that peoplech amass formation, become t radically intolerant forha bet voices. yes. and in the ultimate stage of wie mass formation, they typically start to destroy everyone who doesn t go along with the masses and they will do so as if it is the radical duty ttoo do so. thato the point is that every totalitarian movement in thstory, frenchville, the soviets, the mount all of them began with mass formation. totalitarianism is the end b stage of mass formation and mass formation is what we re seeing now. don t m
crazy. we, right now, and i know it s hard to believe because washington is so dysfunctional, we are stronger as a nation by comparison to other nations than ever before. we re the strongest economically, by far. the strongest militarily, by far. the strongest culturally by par. the strongest diplomatically by far. the strongest than any other country. stronger than 1955 when were were counterbalanced by the soviets. strong than 2000 when the rise of china was sure to overtake us. and russia. and china has lost the power in the last few years, they will be a stronger balance on the world stage but right now, nobody in china would refuse to change places with us right now on the world stage. but, the united states strong in every way.
watched joe biden whether agreed with him or not, always liked those moments where he clearly says something he really believes and thinks is true, rather than finesses it, but presidents can t always do that. a moment during a crisis where an american officer had been shot in berlin by the soviets, and someone said, asked mr. president, how do you feel? he said, you don t want to know what i m thinking s that was probably a good answer. i know that one too. you re right. so this speech, though. it had done pretty much what it was supposed to do. sent a very powerful message to the world about it. if this wasn t strategic, why add that? do you think the president is going hindsight is 20/20? should not have said that? fact is, they re clarifying what he said today. it s never good when your staff has to go out and explain what you really meant. my guess only my guess
personally, but as a government you have chosen to label a colleague of mine, who works for bbc russia, label him as a foreign agent . we all know our history, in the past that was used to describe dissidents by the soviets. why are you doing this? wejust by the soviets. why are you doing this? we just rented this term from the us legislation back from 1938. and replicated it in a much mellower way, requirements for individuals and entities to register themselves as foreign agents. they are very, very liberal in russia compared to what we have in the us, for instance, those who receive grants and finance from outside, from foreign government, they are obliged to register themselves as a foreign agent. that is right,