Foreign policy of Margaret Thatcher



Foreign policy of Margaret Thatcher is known for "having helped the U.S. stare down and defeat the Soviet Union". As Thatcher pointed out herself "The United States and Britain have together been the greatest alliance in defence of liberty and justice". At her first days as a Prime Minister of UK she criticised the Western societies (thus referring not only to British voters and citizens) for their "self-questioning" that has gone too far that it causes paralysis, and that action should substitute introspection at the beginning of a 'dangerous decade' that challenges Western security and way of life, among other international problems she points the "immediate threat from the Soviet Union" which is "military rather than ideological" at the end of the 70s. These words are a cornerstone to Margaret Tatcher's later foreign policy as a Prime Minister of United Kingdom. Together with Ronald Reagan they made an enduring effort to bring freedom to people in the Eastern Bloc and under communist regimes that will refuse them primal human rights like freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of travel, etc. This effort will later result in the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Communism as well, and the dissolution of Soviet Union.