Yet we engaged in '' detente '' with Moscow , because the thrust of U.S. policy in the Cold War was to reduce the Soviets ' ability to threaten us -- through deterrence and arms control agreements -- and then let the information revolution and popular disgruntlement destroy the Soviet Union from within .
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