What????
Reagan cut off your window by pumping billion of dollars and a massive military buildup to ruin that timeline that I had predicted in 1979, and when I was connected with military intelligence in the 1980s, I found that I wasn’t alone in having come to that conclusion.
The 1984/1985 window was seen as when you guys would be at your peak, before our buildup would close the window.
Are you involved in American politics in campaigning and voting?
I know that you only signed up weeks ago, are you also a Russian, living in Russia?
“Reagan cut off your window by pumping billion of dollars and a massive military buildup”
That was the visible part of it.
Reagan negotiating with the Saudi’s to flood the world with oil, dropping the price severely, played the biggest role of all. And he gets no credit for that.
That, along with the systemic and growing corruption within the Soviet system, brought it too it’s knees.
That it didn’t end up in a world war, is thanks as much to the efforts of Yuri Andropov, as it is to Reagan.
Andropov, as head of the KGB, saw the actual economic numbers, had traveled extensively, and knew what was coming. He knew that Russia couldn’t compete with the West any longer without significant structural changes, which many others on the Politburo opposed.
As Premier, he offered to end The Brezhnev Doctrine, and demilitarize the Western Soviet States. (needless to say, this wasn’t popular with the Politboru, or with Honecker)
And also remember that BOTH Gorbachev and Putin came from the Andropov camp. Gorbachev as an aide who Andropov recommended replace him as Chairman, Putin as part of the “Andropov Levy”, bringing in younger, new thinking as reformers into the KGB.