"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"

This quote by Jeane Kirkpatrick recommends that the plan of detente, which was a policy of reducing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War, had not been successful. Rather, Kirkpatrick thought that the plan was really encouraging Soviet development as well as making the world much more unsafe, especially for the Western world. This recommends that Kirkpatrick thought that the policy of detente was ineffective in suppressing Soviet hostility which it was in fact making the globe a lot more harmful. She believed that the Western globe was specifically in jeopardy because of the plan of detente. This quote highlights the tension in between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and the failing of the plan of detente to properly lower this tension.