That would be Ronald Reagan.
Chuckle… He “ended the Cold War” because Reagan told him at Reykjavík Iceland “there’s only one outcome we will accept… We win and you lose”.
That being said, Gorbachev was smart enough to recognize that his psychopath communist generals wanted World War III… And he knew that Reagan would in fact give it to them if they chose to be belligerent.
I lived through it…. And I remember the “war scare of 1983”… Reagan was an effing around, they were the enemy, they’re Democrat friends over here are still the enemy, and he would’ve blown them to hell if they felt froggy.
Even in death, they try to take their shots at RR.
The modern day Bolsheviks look back fondly at the days when they drilled over their Soviet brethren.
Now “Russia bad!”
Andropov was going to nuke us.
By the grace of God, his heart stopped