If that were true we wouldn't be dealing with their crap today. All Reagan did was play a role in convincing them that giving up the countries they overran and occupied during and after WWII would be more conducive to progress than dealing with the civil disobedience, strikes and need for larger and larger occupation forces draining the Russian economy. He had limited authority and power to do that. The Pope and western European countries and people of eastern Europe had far more influence. Granted, those powers benefited from Reagan's support, but the lose of those eastern European nations did little to blunt the military power of the USSR. They changed their name, consolidated into the Russian Federation and became more economically and globally powerful.Dude you have to admit Obama is kind of fem, most prior presidents would mop the floor with the fool. As for Putin that commie will get his, but probably not until we elect a real leader, Obama is too naïve and conceited to deal with Putin.
Really? How would they have done that?
Please give precise details of the policies you would have wanted to see.
Also, can you give examples of other leaders who have 'mopped the floor' with Putin?
LOL Reagan mopped the floor with the entire Soviet empire!