Ronald Reagan won the Cold War but it was Nancy Reagan who made it happen | Fox News

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot. But that victory might never have ever happened without Nancy Reagan.
Throughout Reagan’s first term, he was adamant about one thing. He did not want to just coexist with the USSR, as had all of his predecessors, but to defeat it. He said on many occasions that his plan for the Soviet Union was simple, “We Win, They Lose”. He called the Soviet Union an “evil empire.” Critics seized on those remarks to say, “Ah-ha, Reagan is a war monger. He wants war with the Soviet Union.”
But that was the furthest thing from his mind. Reagan wanted to us to win the Cold War, but not on the battlefield. He wanted to win it through economic pressure and diplomacy. But when he took office in January 1981 those goals were so ambitious they were laughable. So Reagan’s first term was devoted to fixing the U.S. economy, rebuilding our military, and restoring relations with our allies.
Once he had the United States in a position of strength, Reagan reversed gears, and pursued a policy of peace and arms reduction with the Soviet Union. Critics once again jumped on Reagan, how could he pursue peace with a nation he had just months before called an evil empire?
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