With the US still intoxicated by its Cold War "triumph" and pushing everyone to take an anti-Russian position, Europe must become the locomotive of shaping the new world order, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said, reports GHN based on RT.
"We must to go back to the starting line, from which we began building a new world both in Europe and elsewhere," Gorbachev said in an interview with the TASS news agency.
The former Soviet leader recalled his meeting with US President George Bush Sr. in Malta on December 23, 1989.
During the talks, which took place several weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the two leaders overcame their divisions and acknowledged the end of the Cold War.
"There are signs of Cold War" in the recent cooling down of relations between Moscow and Washington over Russia's accession of the Crimea and the turmoil in Ukraine, Gorbachev said.
"We can and we must stop this whole process, like we did in the 1980s. We opted for de-escalation, for the unification [of Germany]. And back then it was a lot tougher than now. So why can't we do it again?"he said.
According to Gorbachev, the "new world order" after the Cold War allowed major powers to quickly solve a lot of longtime conflicts around the globe.
