We got 2 hard noses here and one has a weak hand.
Exactly right. Like many others here, I witnessed the end of the Cold War. To the very end, the USSR blustered and postured as if they were a force to be reckoned with, but in the end, Reagan, Thatcher, John Paul II, and Walesa called their bluff and stared them down. They crumbled like the deck of cards they always were.