War did not come from his actions but rather they came from
Gorbachev’s intention to end it for the sake of USSR. Even though
Reagan’s military build up pressurized Gorbachev to end the arms race, the arms race would not have ended if Gorbachev had not want it to be so and if he had not been willing to make the compromises, when
Reagan had not been willing to do so. 6i'ewise" Gorbachev’s UN speech was fundamentally a result of his own intention to end the ideological conflict and the superpower rivalry. Although Reagan’s support for the anti/communist movements within USSR gave rise to the 1989
insurrections"