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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
The criticism of Reagan's handling of the USSR is a level of cope I rarely see. The USSR ended detente with their stupid idea to stabilize their communist allies in Afghanistan. You can't start wars and call for international disarmament at the same time.

Reagan didn't "create al-Queda", he gave weapons to the Mujahadeen who were resisting the Soviet invasion. The Mujahadeen was comprised of different groups from all over the world who later fought each other during the Afghan Civil War following the Soviet withdrawal. Osama bin Laden is the founder of AQ, and they were just one of the groups operating in Afghanistan after the war. 

Gorbachev's request to get rid of Soviet nukes in exchange for America doing the same was made when the Soviets had zero leverage because of the impending collapse of the Soviet economy. By the time Gorbachev took power in 1985, 1 out of every 3 loaves of bread consumed in the USSR were imported. The problem for the Soviets was that the oil money they used to purchase foreign goods was gone by 1985. Why was it gone? Because the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan spooked the Saudis into aligning with the US and decreasing the price of oil. The goal of this collaboration was to choke the Soviet wallet and prevent the USSR from further aggression in the Muslim world. Facing a food crisis and no funds to import goods, Gorbachev needed to come to a deal with Reagan, and it was the Reagan administration that forced Gorbachev to grant political rights in the USSR. The offer to get rid of all nukes was just a publicity stunt that no one was interested in accepting. 

Reagan wasn't perfect, but his handling of the USSR and using their own aggression against them was brilliant. The real second-worst president of the modern era was Barack Obama btw.
gpt
In other words, all of these problems can be blamed on Brezhnev. Probably because he was unplugged from his outlet.