Who really won the cold war since 1986?

dze

despite the messiness of the world situation ... the US is the sole world superpower ... with China rapidly rising to challenge ....

justanotherengine

"Ronnie" pulled that one off, there never was any "Star Wars" satellite, "Ronald Reagan" was an "ACTOR" ! He pulled off the performance of a life time, by destroying the Soviet Union Economically, "Ronnie" we REALLY NEED YOU NOW !

paragong

there are still alot of problems around the world but i think its a safer place now without the americans and russians being ready to push the button so i think that with the cold war were all the winners but more paraniod because of it
i dont know why we have to see some nation or people as the enemy its a shame its about time we got on better with each other and excepted the differences that aways arise when to peoples meet.

Jomtien C

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Jim

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989-91, I think the winner of the Cold War is chaos, utter and complete chaos.

The world is much more dangerous and if the world is not careful and band together against the current evils of this world, society will be doomed. To bad everyone wants to blame the United States, because they are deluding themselves at their own peril.

hussaen ali

The Zionist lobby in the USA

saorsie

no one.

lat0ria

the real winner was the zionists

Bad Axe

US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is an idiot since he IGNORED his officials about the duplicity of Chiang Kai-shek, he SHOULD had trusted Mao Zedong,who had integrity. US President Richard Milhouse Nixon opened the doors to Mao Zedong and the People's Republic of China too late. US President Ronald Wilson Reagan defeated the Soviet Union and made the United States of America from the World's Number One Creditor nation into the Number One Debtor. US President George Walker Bush almost started World War 3 regarding electronic surveillance, BUT how the US owes possibly over $120,000,000 YES over 120 billion US Dollars to Communist China. They own the US baby. è°¢è°¢æ‚¨çš„é’± or Thank you for your money in US English.

frankturk50

Nobody won, it just faded away with collapse of the USSR.

michael w

The short answer is: the West. However, there is a longer answer which may well show that it was only won with the help of the various peoples in the USSR. Whether they regret that now is another matter. As with most ideologies, these cannot be turned on or off like a tap. Russia still has leanings towards communism, I guess but this will gradually erode as the new generations grow up. Regrettably, exposing communism as a wothless project only leaves a vacuum and this is being filled by other ideologies such as muslim fundamentalism. Where communism still exists, those countries suffer horrendous public deterioration, poverty, early death, famine, fear, lack of proper education and downright destitution - except, of course, for the people actually pulling the strings and creaming off the wealth often provided by well-meaning but misguided 'free' countries.

randal z

The Cold War? Do you have any idea what that was? You sound like you are very confused. The cold war was military build up between the USA and the Soviet Union. With the collapse of the Soviet Union we won the Cold War.

eks_spurt

I recall sitting on a bar stool watching the news, a year or so after the Iron Curtain came down, listening to an article about how were were giving Russia a $180 billion grant. The fella sitting next to me has a masters degree in political science. I am musing to myself, out loud evidently, saying, "Nikita said it best! When he said, we will bury you from within!" when I hear, "that is deep" statement come over my left shoulder.
The ensuing conversation invited the lawyer sitting to the right of me. The points made in that discussion had nothing to do with other countries, but with what we were doing to ourselves.
99% of the people here would disagree with me, but I see isolationist policies made under this whole idea of globalization. It is fostering everything from national pride to racial pride. We can see it here even on the economic level. A narrowing of the middle class, indicates another point of dissent from isolationist policies.

To answer your question directly, all we have to do is ask ourselves what we did. The cold war was nothing more than point and counterpoint. Who had the right point is a political difference of opinion. Who won the war? They did and not just Russia.

gawain

i think nobody can win a war

British&Rude

I'm really not sure. But what I am sure of, whoever claims the title, they would never have done it without America's help.... (and please feel free to read between the lines and see the sarcasm oozing from the letters).

mali

It is a see-saw matter

erlish

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