And you are a surrender monkey who doesn’t remember Reagan and the 1980s.
The 1980s under Reagan were wild, and so were our aggressive actions in Europe, and him challenging the Russians everywhere, from Afghanistan to Latin America, to Grenada, and Europe.
Europe was in incredible turmoil with massive anti-Reagan demonstrations backed and funded by the Russians, a hostile anti-American, American press, sounding like you, terrorists attacking us and killing us in nightclubs, having to walk through Frankfurt airport as the bomb damage was being repaired, terrorists being caught with the plans of our posts, us doing the largest reforgers in history, the 100s of thousands of us, and the millions of the rest of NATO, and the massive buildup for war.
You should have seen the tension among the American GIs during Reagan’s standing up to Russia, especially in the Fulda Gap.
All of us, and our NATO allies were going high speed and were ready for war at any minute, knowing that Russia would either attack, or blink.
Luckily, they broke, and once that weakness was revealed, then they started collapsing internally.
Reagan barely saved the world from the 1984/85 war that we felt that Jimmy Carter had set up, with his late 1970s actions, we knew that if the Russians missed that window, then they would not get another such window for many years to come, and Reagan and our aggression, evidently closed that window enough, that they couldn’t risk making their thrust.
I left off Africa, Reagan was taking it to the commies in Africa.
Reagan barely saved the world...
You give Reagan far less credit than he deserves.
Luck had NOTHING to do with it, Reagan's genius, planning, strategy and tactics were entirely responsible.
Reagan planned the SALT II talks refusal in order to convince all the Soviet negotiators that the US could economically continue to support the world class US military and the entire civilian economy as well, while the Soviet Union could not, that was the weakness, economic. In order to get the Soviet Union to stand down and significantly disarm, Reagan suggested dissolution of the Union and pledged protection of the member Republics AND the core Russian Republics. Then Reagan submitted a plan to accomplish those ends.
All of this was prepared in advance, by Reagan, and was NOT a matter of luck.
It is true that Reagan stood firm and used force against Communists many times, but he did not threaten and bluster, and his strategic dissolution of the Soviet Union was the crowning achievement of any politician in modern history.
Additionally, Reagan never spent American lives capriciously, or any lives for that matter, for the purpose of bluster, ego or self service.
And remember, Reagan was standing up to the Soviet Union not "Russia", a completely different entity than the Russian Federation. You should get your players straight.