I think today is much more dangerous.
Reagan was a blessing. IRAN capitulated on day one.
I don’t see it now.
Today isn’t more dangerous, the world is not going to end tonight.
For decades, we couldn’t say that. I don’t know if you spent much time thinking what WWIII and the end of Europe was going to look like, and what it would mean as the navies were sunk, millions of troops dying in Europe, our transport ships and troop carrying aircraft going down in the Atlantic as we tried to get men to them, and in the end, perhaps nothing left but a bad horror movie.
Even the bloody wars of Korea and Vietnam were a part of that Cold war, as were the 2200 peacetime military deaths we averaged per year under Reagan, and because of the horrors that hung over our heads every second, we considered those part of what seemed to us then, acceptable losses as long as we could avoid the big war.
Right now the average American cannot even imagine us ever fighting a war like Vietnam again, where we measure our dead by the many tens of thousands.