How effective was Kissingers détente?

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Would it have potentially thawed US-USSR relations to the point of ending the Cold War if Reagan hadn't adopted anti-détente policies?

SirGuyGrand

Probably not. Brezhnev kind of screwed the pooch on that one with the invasion of Afghanistan in '79. Even if Carter had won a second term instead of Reagan it's unlikely Detente would have continued, or at least it would never have reached pre-1979 levels of cooperation.