If the Democrats held the presidential office throughout the 80s, would the cold war still be going on?

I think WWIII would have happened - allow me to explain:

Everyone knows that Communism does not work, and yes, it was Reagan that quickly bankrupted them by escalating the arms race. But had there been no Reagan, the bankruptcy of the USSR would have happened much more slowly, causing them to get more and more desparate and paranoid over time. I believe that eventually, the President of the USSR would have thought the only way to survive would be to launch an all out Nuclear war in hopes that they would win, thus saving their nation by living off the spoils of victory.

So yes, Republicans saved the world once again.

I would gladly take the old cold war over a much more dangerous, no end in site, war on terror. At least with the cold war you knew who the enemy was and how to defend against them and with MAD in place nobody was going to use nukes. With this war on terror nobody has any idea what might happen like a without any warning WMD/Nuke attack on the US by terrorists. The cold war kept the world in a nice balance of power and in today's world there is no balance of power and that is more dangerous than the cold war.

Well, the Soviet Union was collasping from the 60's all the way through the early 1990s because it was not sustainable economically. Stalin's programs were not sound enough to be able to provide enough economic strength to stop the collaspe if the USSR. Its failure was bound to happen regardless of who was in the office of the President. Politics aside the Cold War was on the outs regardless of who was in office

Does your rant against Democrats by any chance include President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who led not just the United States, but the whole Allied cause, against Germany and Japan during WW2? Or President Wilson, who led the US and England against Germany in WW1? Where do you get such nonsense? And give some credit to the Russians for ditching Communism, they did a lot more to end it than your empty suit presidents ever did.

And Republicans like to forget this, but it is true--they were the pacifist lets be nice to Hitler side before WW2 involved the US.

no... reagan presided over the fall of russia, it had nothing to do with bush sr. also, you forget that there were other presidents who preceded reagan who kept up the arms race which led to the implosion of the ussr.

the fall of the ussr was inevitable. it crumbled from the inside. reagan deserves credit for being there to help them recover when gorbachev asked for aid. but he did not do it alone, that is ignorant of the role the middle east played and the rest of history.

La la la. The cold war was mostly a farce propagated by the hyper reactionary warmongers. Sound familiar?

Stupidity begets stupidity.

I heard that they had shrink back on investment so as they had to scrimp on cardboard this 365 days. So this is going to be a shrink-out of that skinny, cracked out Paris Hilton. they are going to be getting the toddlers to entice herpes on her, so this is going to a minimum of be a correct parent of her.

The Cold War would have been won, but by the Soviets instead...

We would have been citizens of the North American SSR.

no.

the soviet union fell for two reasons:

the war in afganistan drained their treasury.

socialism as a method of running either a society or an economy doesn't work.

let me know if this isn't clear and i'll retype everything in all caps for you...

Yes, and so would double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, gas lines and declining absolute economic mobility.