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Svetlana Savranskaya et al., « Document No. 47: Cable from Jack Matlock to State Department, “U.S.-Soviet Relations: Policy Opportunities” February 22, 1989 », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.5hpomc
U.S. Ambassador Matlock’s third cable (see Document Nos. 43 & 45) drives home the point that U.S. influence has never been greater, and “[t]hat leverage should be used not to ‘help’ Gorbachev or the Soviet Union, but to promote U.S. interests. The most central of such interests is the long-term transformation of the Soviet Union into a society with effective organic constraints on the use of military force outside its borders.” Even the expert Matlock does not recognize that Gorbachev has alr...