Michael Malice
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They want to invade.
They want to kill us.
The Americans thought this about the Russians.
The Russians thought this about the Americans, obviously not so much the British.
They got on really well.
When Gorbachev came to Chequers, which is the prime minister's countryside estate, Thatcher sat him down and she's lecturing him about human rights and she's lecturing him about economics and she's lecturing him about this and that.
And then she's lecturing him about why he isn't eating while he's yelling at her.
And he goes, Mrs. Thatcher, I know you have a lot of strong opinions,
I do too.
I haven't been sent here to recruit you to the communist party.
And she just started laughing.
But right away, there was such a sense in the air of we can do better.
We're spending all this money on missiles.
We're spending all this money on the military.
It's expensive.
And for what?
we don't have to be looking at each other as enemies.
We can try to work together to kind of, at the very least, lower the volume and the heat.
I could not give him more credit.
I had a tweet last year where I said, who do you think is the greatest person alive right now?