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Quotes on Cold War diplomacy and its critics.

These detente quotes revisit a contested chapter of Cold War diplomacy, weighing the opening to China and improved Soviet relations against critics who argued detente only encouraged further expansion.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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Nov 07, 2020

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Nov 07, 2020

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Nov 07, 2020

Kissinger celebrants inevitably point to two things to justify their admiration: an opening to China - 'rapprochement' - and improved relations with the Soviet Union - detente - which included SALT, a historic arms-limitation treaty.

Quotes by Greg Grandin

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Nov 07, 2020

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Quotes by Golda Meir

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Nov 07, 2020

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

Skeptics here plainly Believe the policy failed at its stated goal, while one line dismisses the term itself as a fancy French label for plain old cold war. Kissinger's defenders still hold real Admiration for the era's diplomacy.

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