Cool your jets. I haven’t taken anything from Reagan.
Moral, economic, and political pressure work together.
Reagan employed moral pressure when he criticized the Soviets. His repeatedly employed rhetoric to increase moral pressure. He called the Soviets an “evil empire”, for example. He had allies, allies within Soviet controlled countries, allies that helped break the Soviets.
Did I say we are in a more dangerous daily situation today, that he threat is even larger now? No I didn’t.
Cool your own jets, as you keep ignoring the biggest factor for some reason, what we were doing in the military.
How Reagan was engaging the Russians everywhere, with GIs and/or mercenaries, and conducting a massive military build up and aggressive military actions and advancing weapons placements in Europe, daring the Soviet war machine.
About 2200 of us a year, were dying under Reagan, and things were tense and high speed. What defeated the Soviets was seeing the helplessness of their situation militarily.
Russians and morals? an economy that they couldn’t sit out while keeping their empire? people not liking them? Everything helps, but if they could have made war work for them against Reagan, then they would have used it.
In 1979 some of us were predicting war with the Soviets in about 1984 or 1985, which would be a window of maximum advantage for them, but Reagan came in and spent billions to erase that window, and reverse the situation.
If you look at the history of the Cold war, your elements had existed before, and the Soviets rode it out.
I don’t know if you are too young to have been a part of the Cold war, but you seem to have gotten your views from the post Cold war media.
By the way, post 11 wasn't even to you, so why the weird response, as though it was?