detente

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the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations)

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

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table. Leonid Brezhnev

Detente sounds a fine word. And, to the extent that there really has been a relaxation in international tension, it is a fine thing. But the fact remains that throughout this decade of detente, the armed forces of the Soviet Union have increased, are increasing, and show no signs of diminishing. Margaret Thatcher

A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes détente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation-my generation-knows from four very bitter experiences. Gerald Ford

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente. Jeane Kirkpatrick

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. Jeane Kirkpatrick

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