The organization was founded in 1949 at the outset of the Cold War and was largely a U.S.-led buffer against aggression by the Soviet Union, which at the time held sway over Eastern Europe in the form of the Warsaw Pact.

In sum, a lot has changed since 1989, or the 1991 Gulf War, which was the last hurrah of the Cold War military.

intertwined with many “South” states in ways that simply were not possible during the First Cold War.

Post-Soviet States Fear New Era of Russian Expansionism Poland, like the Baltic nations, was dominated by communist forces who owed allegiance to Moscow until reasserting its independence at the end of the Cold War.

Washington Steps Up Its Game Washington spent the first 30 years after the Cold War treating Central Asia as an afterthought—besides Afghanistan, some energy deals, and little more. That changed fast after 2022.

The war is widely considered the first battle of the Cold War, which continued until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Korean conflict was also considered an impossible war.

Post-Cold War policy marked by expanding federal intervention at home and globalist policy abroad will be replaced by Trump’s lone governing strategy: put America first.

He trekked through a jungle for 13 days, jumped a fence at Guantanamo Bay, and navigated a Cold War-era minefield to escape his home. The first American his father met was a U.S. Marine.

In a 2025 post-cold war era, because of a series of post-soviet economic and political transitions and challenges, Russia no longer remains the sole major player alongside the United States—China has exploded onto the scene.

But China isn't happy, with its officials slamming the news as a "cold war mentality."

He said these advertising campaigns suggest Canada could be on the verge of returning to a "Cold War-like social public"—to a time when dinner table conversations were dominated by talk of nuclear weapons or aerospace technology.

“The post-Cold War period is over. A new era has begun,” Biden said, noting that despite facing multiple crises and tests over the past four years, the United States has emerged stronger.

Among those to acknowledge the need for higher defense spending was UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who said during a speech in London on Jan. 9 that Europe's security was on a "knife edge" and that “the post-Cold War peace is well and truly over.”

Beijing wonders if the United States can fight “two simultaneous wars” in widely separated geopolitical theaters. Two wars at once was a Cold War requirement, but the United States no longer has the Cold War military structure.

‘More Dangerous Cold War’ In his talk, Mr. Abbott said the West is engaged in a new cold war with communist China, one that has higher stakes than the one with the Soviet Union in the last century.

Irving Finster, headmaster of the school and the author of a successful Cold War thriller. Although the house is now very run-down, Whitney sees how much the owner had heavily invested in the home, both financially and personally.

A 25 percent reduction, focusing on outdated Cold War sites and unproductive Middle East efforts, would save $15 billion annually.

–Russia summits have been hosted in Geneva, Helsinki, or Reykjavik—venues steeped in Cold War symbolism and European mediation. Alaska flips the script.

Cold War Suspicions a World Away From Today's Youths As the Cold War years fade into the distance, attitudes towards communism and socialism shift, particularly among younger generations who have never experienced the ideologies first-hand.

According to the report, global expenditure saw an increase of “9.4 percent in real terms from 2023 and the steepest year-on-year rise since at least the end of the Cold War."

Following the end of World War II in 1945, with the Soviet Union pushing to spread communism, the United States funds the struggle against communism in war-torn Europe and around the globe. The Cold War is already underway.

Expressions of anti-communism, once bipartisan, are now easily recast as “Cold War nostalgia,” “right-wing nationalism,” or “McCarthy-era paranoia.”

We’re not looking for a new Cold War.”

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Chinese Embassy in Manila said that Teodoro’s remarks were “filled with ideological bias and based on bloc confrontation and the Cold War mentality.”

Trump is replacing the post-Cold War global elite system. Now, each nation will suddenly have to focus on its own interests without the expectation of handouts, bailouts, or other interventions. This has rattled elites across the planet.

Even with the more common topics, like the American Revolution or the Cold War, McDougall presents information and perspectives that will be new to readers.

That was certainly the case with Zeus and Prometheus, whose animosities played out in a “cold war” full of perfidy and deceit. Prometheus tried several times to undercut Zeus’s authority.

It’s the alliance’s biggest buildup since the Cold War. The war games are meant to deter Russia from targeting a member country.

For those born after the Cold War, despair wasn’t bombs or poverty, but meaninglessness. Anxiety and loneliness have reached record highs, and trust in institutions has mostly collapsed.

The Cold War era introduced another form of government intrusion into American life. Fear of communist infiltration led to sweeping investigations into the political beliefs of citizens.