The defeat of America over the Soviet Union reduced the threat of a nuclear war and freed millions of people from oppression.  , Though the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, after Ronald Reagan left business, his operating plan won a battle that persisted through the course of nine administrations.  ,  ,
The main figurehead of the USSR’s damage is frequently denounced by those who do not fully comprehend his legacy of strength today.  , We who know, who stood following to President Reagan, may speak, for the knowledge of past is , diminished , as its true testimony die.
Despite what is , averred , by those who played no immediate part in the , Soviet Union’s death, the president of Ronald Reagan caused the USSR to collapse. It may be analogized to claim that a lender robber acted as a Good Samaritan by falling to the ground after the officers chased him in order to claim that Mikhail Gorbachev destroyed the Soviet Union. The argument is absurd.
A , update of history , is essential when data is discovered, permitting important reinterpretation, to change understanding through descriptive power. Revision, however, may not be a tool to nullify the previous, which when wielded to market an agenda conveys advertising.  ,
Ronald Reagan ended détente: He sought to dismantle the Soviet Union, never live with it. Some who argue often appear to be trying to refute President Reagan’s view of American individualism, which reveres the individual over the group. We believe this accidental record is, in piece, promulgated to provide America’s administrative state and so reduce President Donald Trump’s ability to place our nation’s interests first. Therefore, it is a grave risk as well as inadmissible.
The outcome of events around the world was influenced by President Reagan’s method, which instilled mastery of all crucial foundations of national power. His talent created the circumstances that, without going to war, would have prevented the Soviet Union’s destruction.  ,
President Reagan argued that the purpose of deifying the condition is to mock God and enhance the group above the person. These crimes, destructive to rights, were committed by the Soviet Union and its management and were thus illegal, for they were wedded to brutal offensive power.  , To defeat this terrible empire, President Reagan drew on a lifetime of teaching and thought.
Reagan was a student of history who valued percipience over the avowal of worked stories. He was a voracious readers who lived through four big war in which Americans died. President Reagan’s view was honed by his review of our members.  , In economy, Reagan absorbed the verities of Nobel laureates F. A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, who extolled the benefits of individual freedom.  , The mayor’s notion of national security reflected the views of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, President Eisenhower, and marine thinker Alfred Thayer Mahan, their thoughts mingled with Reagan’s revulsion to the idea of unrestrained proper bombing, as advocated by Giulio Douhet.
To extend freedom to Eastern Europe, the president turned to the words of Lincoln and the scholarship of , Lev E. Dobriansky , that described the yearnings of captive nations beaten on Moscow’s anvil. Reagan did not hesitate to confront the multinational corporations that wanted to finish the Trans-Siberian Pipeline, which was supposed to be the economic lifeblood of the Soviet Union.  , President Reagan, facing unprecedented international rancor, severely delayed the first part of the pipeline and terminated its second strand, thus strangling the USSR’s source of desperately needed hard currency.
The most important component of the most successful geostrategic plan in modern history was the interruption of this pipeline. Revisionists who are determined to sabotage President Reagan’s legacy concentrate their efforts on aspects of this plan that are alien to its core and its success because they disregard or refuse to acknowledge that the president’s grand strategy had one goal: the expansion of liberty to those who wished and bled for it.
The Soviet Empire’s foundational nodes were the subject of unwavering pressure from President Reagan. As communist elites grew in strength as liberating forces like Solidarity in Poland grew in strength, as President Reagan’s work and Pope John Paul II’s proclamation of God’s rule over Eastern Europe resulted in the reduction of Soviet hard currency reserves and American aid to forces deployed against Soviet military operations in Afghanistan and in client states.
Reeling from these blows, Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative, which was derived from a rejection of the doctrine of mutually assured destruction and an abhorrence of war. The Soviet Union then saw its last remaining symbol of power destroyed. The USSR’s nuclear arsenal’s growing strength was determined by its coercive ability to launch a first strike that would partially destroy America’s deterrent.  , The value of the USSR’s missile forces as an accepted measure of national strength, however, evaporated as the perceived capacity of these weapons was flayed by America’s potential deployment of defensive systems. The USSR was thus forced to compete in a technological race that it was unable to even support.
The ruptures that President Reagan caused in the USSR, as demonstrated by the restoration of our nation’s armed forces, could not be prevented by any conceivable action Gorbachev could have taken, for any action to stop Soviet hemorrhaging created a new lesion that amplified and broadcast to the world the poverty, isolation, and enormous corruption of a communist empire built on death.  , This is what caused the USSR’s immolation.  ,
The Space Force, which President , Trump created, embodies Reagan’s vision of peace through inexorable defensive strength. Today, technologies developed under the aegis of the Strategic Defense Initiative are used to protect Israel and parts of the US.
Today, America is confronted by a slew of adversarial states and terrorist threats that go beyond the challenges the Soviet Union posed. President Trump has met these challenges decisively through his articulation, fusion, and use of our country ‘s , levers of power.  , Russia claimed no new territories during Trump’s first term, China was constrained, ISIS was defeated, Israel was supported, and Iran was hobbled. These accomplishments were a result of a coordinated strategy that Trump had to establish that would ensure our position as leader among nations. A second Trump presidency will help to spread this legacy of peace with resolve.  ,
John Poindexter, Richard Levine, William Martin, Paula Dobriansky, Roger Robinson, Christopher Lehman, and Ken deGraffenreid served together on the Reagan National Security Council staff.
