Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump exemplify the standard that there is no substitute for victory.
America’s victory over the Soviet Union was a triumph that freed millions from the yoke of tyranny and reduced the threat of global nuclear war. Though the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, after Ronald Reagan left office, his operational plan won a war that persisted through the course of nine presidencies.
Today, the principal author of the USSR’s destruction is often belittled by those who do not fully understand his legacy of strength. We who know, who stood next to President Reagan, must speak, for the grasp of history is diminished as its actual witnesses die.
Despite what is averred by those who played no direct part in the Soviet Union’s destruction, the presidency of Ronald Reagan caused the USSR to implode. To state that Mikhail Gorbachev dismantled the Soviet Union may be analogized to contending that a bank robber acted as a Good Samaritan by falling to the ground after the police chased him. The contention is ludicrous.
A revision of history is necessary when evidence is discovered, permitting meaningful reinterpretation, to transform understanding through explanatory power. Revision, however, must not become a tool to negate the past, which when wielded to promote an agenda conveys propaganda.
Ronald Reagan ended détente: He sought to demolish the Soviet Union, not coexist with it. Some who argue otherwise seem to seek the debasement of President Reagan’s conception of American exceptionalism, which reveres the primacy of the individual and not the collective. We believe this errant history is, in part, promulgated to serve America’s bureaucratic state and thus diminish President Donald Trump’s ability to place our nation’s interests first. It is thus both unacceptable and deeply dangerous.
President Reagan’s strategy instilled mastery of all important bases of national power, thereby influencing the outcome of events across the globe. His genius established the predicates that ordained the demise of the Soviet Union without resorting to war.
