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Originally Posted by peter12
I've never heard a single political scientist or analyst state that Reagan prolonged the Cold War.
The guy, in part, sped up the collapse of the USSR because of his tough and uncompromising stance against Gorbachev and the Soviets.
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glasnost and perestroika did far more damage to the soviet union than Reagan could ever manage to do.
How did Reagan really speed up the process?
Maybe you could make the case about sponsering resistance in Afganistan, but the Soviet Union wasn't matching US military expenitures anyways. They had essentially backed out of the arms race when Reagan ramped it up again.