Reagan did start WW3.
It just wasn’t a shooting war. It was an economic war.
And the former Soviet Union lost.
yup, he won the cold war without losing a single life.
He had to. Imagine Obama in charge then.
We would all be digging our mass graves in the light of atomic afterglow, or learning to speak Russian in the gulag.
It was either war by proxy and economics or open war by nuclear weapons and mass casualties. Which both sides did not want (it is worthwhile to note that it did almost occur, on one occasion I know of, nearly on accident). Both governments knew what the latter would mean to human civilization, played chess, and America won. Through cleverness, or deception. America won.
It is also worthwhile to note that in my opinion, belief, and observations that I have come to the conclusion that two things happened when Russia lost.
1.) America declared herself victor of the war and moved on.
2.) Russia grudgingly declared defeat of a solitary battle, and moved onto lengthy, decades long plans to win all the future battles.
If you think Russian thinkers have not been instrumental in what has been going on in America since the end of the cold war (what very well could have been WWIII) then you need to read up. Read what Russian thinkers proposed about implementing communism in America, before we won the battle of the Cold War. Then apply those ideas to today. It’s very simple to connect the dots.
I think it’s possible that we didn’t even really win. But we were allowed to, for Russia to move onto more subtle psyops, knowing the geopolitical climate would never have allowed them to win.
The worst enemy you can have is an enemy hiding in plain sight, while you rally them to fight a known enemy, knives are slipped between your ribs.