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Reminds me of the disparagement of the Reagan as a "B-movie actor". He was playing quite a "role" when he was the first president to try to end, rather than co

• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > He was playing quite a "role" when he was the first president to try to end, rather than contain, the Soviet Union, and then achieved that. There is no concrete way in which his policies were more substantially more aimed at ending the USSR than containing it compared to prior administrations (in many ways, it was perfectly within the range of approaches taken by prior regimes; the most substantial differentiating element that people tend to point to was the big ramp up in defense spending -- which was a policy initiated by Carter at the end of his term.) And his administration did not achieve ending the USSR, either.