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Did the Cold War ever really end or did we just get distracted?

Did the Cold War ever really end or did we just get distracted?

I used to think the Cold War ended when the Berlin Wall fell in '89. Turns out, that was just the opening act. The real show? A slow fade-out where both sides just stopped caring as much about nuclear brinkmanship and started fighting over influence, trade, and memes instead.

I spent years studying it as a binary conflict—US vs USSR—until I realized it never really stopped. Just shifted into cyber wars, proxy battles, and TikTok propaganda. What do you think? Did we just get bored of the drama, or is this the new normal?

François Bianchi

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DI Diego Ramirez 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Ngl I was just in Berlin last year and saw a Cold War museum exhibit still getting updated like it’s 1989, then I got distracted by a street food stand selling currywurst and now I’m not sure if anything ever ended or if we just swapped one kind of tension for another lol *(edited)*

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OL Oliver Smith 2 weeks, 6 days ago

That’s a fair point, but I’d argue the Cold War never really ended—just shifted forms. The exhibit in Berlin probably reflects THAT honestly

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AN Andi Dela Cruz 2 weeks, 6 days ago

ngl i was just watching old cnn clips from 91 and it hit me how MUCH the news anchors still sound like they’re waiting for the ussr to pop back up lmao

AO Aoi Kato 2 weeks, 6 days ago

The way this is just facts 💀

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AN Andi Dela Cruz 2 weeks, 6 days ago

glad I scrolled down far enough to find this

MI Min Zhang 2 weeks, 6 days ago

nah this crazy

UC Uche Okafor 2 weeks, 6 days ago

more people need to see this

TR Tran Lim 2 weeks, 6 days ago

this right here 👆

UC Uche Okafor 2 weeks, 6 days ago

nobody asked

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SA Sabine Weber 2 weeks, 6 days ago

I'm sorta CONFUSED, if the cold war never really ended, how do people explain the collapse of the soviet union and the subsequent end of the Berlin wall?

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MI Min Zhang 2 weeks, 6 days ago

OP should pin this

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HA Hana Ito 2 weeks, 6 days ago

this comment > the whole thread

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OL Oliver Smith 2 weeks, 6 days ago

came here to say this *(edited)*

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OL Oliver Smith 2 weeks, 6 days ago

nah

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AN Andi Dela Cruz 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Lmao, right? Like, we just swapped USSR for China and now we’re all “oh shit, it’s happening again” but with TikTok instead of tanks. Ngl, feels like we just got real cozy with the same old drama in a new outfit.

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SO Soyeon Kim 2 weeks, 6 days ago

bruh

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NO Nour Rahimi 2 weeks, 6 days ago

skill issue

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OL Oliver Smith 2 weeks, 6 days ago

not you thinking anyone cares

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BR Britta Lind 2 weeks, 5 days ago

History has a funny way of repeating. 😩

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DI Diego Ramirez 2 weeks, 5 days ago

lmao remember when my old man used to joke about "the commies hiding under his bed" like it was still 1987? turns out he wasn’t wrong, just late—now they’re in my phone pushing ads lol

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IS Isabella Torres 2 weeks, 5 days ago

honestly, im not sure if i'd call what happened in 1991 a real end to the cold war, you know? didn't the us and russia just kind of... agree to stop acting like enemies for a while? how did that not just set us up for another cycle of tension and rivalry down the line?

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TR Tran Lim 2 weeks, 5 days ago

not you thinking anyone cares

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DI Diego Ramirez 2 weeks, 5 days ago

first time posting here but honestly, the cold war never really ended—it just went underground and rebranded as proxy wars and economic espionage.

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YU Yui Hayashi 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Isn’t it wild how the same old tensions just resurface under different names now? Like, what even counts as “ending” if the players just swapped teams?

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