Reagan DID embargo the USSR. And he brought Europe along.

Posted on: March 14, 2018 at 12:19:37 CT

Gorbachev needed hard currency to build his oil and gas pipeline to sell oil and gas to Europe. He got western Europe to withhold loans to the USSR. He had doctored plans for crucial pipeline parts planted for soviet spies to steal, causing critical failures. If you'll recall, if you're old enough to remember, the US, UK, France and Germany united in the effort to shut the USSR down. One condition was that the Iron Curtain had to open their borders so that their people could leave. And LEAVE THEY DID. The Berlin Wall came down. Remember? And the USSR itself finally collapsed on Christmas Day, 1991. What Reagan did worked. Carter just wanted to coexist.