The European Union did just as much as the US to bring down the Soviet Union, and the new US ambassador should not forget it.
Without the model of peace, democracy, prosperity and human rights across the Iron Curtain, dissidents would have had no model.
The EEC/EU demonstrated that a different Europe was possible from that of the 19th century or the 1930s. Let’s not go backwards.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 27 January 2017. View the original thread.