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The United States and Reagan of course needed people friendly to our cause and that of NATO’s to help, solidarity, Thatcher a Pope that could help, but Reagan was what made it happen, Reagan and the American military and billions of the American taxpayers money.
If not for Reagan, the Russian empire would have already conquered Europe, or nuclear holocaust, or the Cold War would still be on, and things would look very different for the world today with the USSR and this rich and powerful China still shrinking the free world.