[Ray76]

Moral, economic, and political pressure is how Reagan, Walesa, and Pope John Paul II accomplished the destruction of the Eastern Bloc.

The world now faces a virulent and savage ideology that subjugates the people of many countries and is aggressively expanding into others by brutality and by clever insinuations. They too must must be destroyed militarily, politically, and ideologically - just as communism was. That threat calls itself “islam”, an ideology and system of government that has since its inception been at war with all other peoples and nations. It is not only the danger they pose to the world that necessitates their destruction, but the brutality and oppression the exert on their own people.

[ansel12]

Nonsense, Reagan and Thatcher were pushing the Russians militarily, Reagan and our military might and level of readiness globally and challenging the Russians everywhere, in Africa and Afghanistan and the Caribbean, and Europe was devastating them, the help we were getting with political destabilization in Eastern Europe was very valuable, but don't over rate the value of having a Polish Pope and the Solidarity movement, the Russians had crushed movements before.

Reagan was what made the 1980s different, without Reagan, and his aggressive and threatening use of the economic and military might of the United States, and the Soviets would have survived the 1980s.

We are a long way from facing a daily threat of the world's annihilation, like we did facing the Soviet Empire.