Posted on 07/01/2019 9:45:25 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
President Reagan was the left's most hated POTUS, evah, until President Trump. He was an outsider with no fedgov or foreign policy experience. A pro-life Christian conservative and an America-loving patriot. His anti-Communist, anti-USSR rhetoric was inflammatory, reckless and dangerous. His name-calling ("evil empire'), inexperience, war-mongering and direct confrontational (and bungling) style was going to bumble us into a nuclear conflagration.
His tone was the worst.
And his photo op meetings and one-on-one summits with dictatorial soviet leaders produced no immediate tangible results. Total failures.
And then (unexpectedly and shockingly) the walls began crumbling... followed by a complete collapse.
Now he's more hated (by the left) than ever.
Reagan's strategy to undermine the Soviet economy was:
1) acces to Western capital markets was made more difficult
2) export controls on sensitive technology was tightened
3) some of the technology that the Soviets were able to acquire illegally or steal was out of date or booby trapped.
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