The Cold War wasn’t just a punchline after the USSR fell—it was a decades-long showdown between ideologies and militaries, not a single punch. Think of it like a rivalry between two titans: their clash wasn’t sparked by one dramatic fall, but by years of building armies, spreading propaganda, and clashing in proxy wars. Wikipedia notes the Cold War was “expressed through ideological struggle and an arms race,” while Britannica calls it a “political rivalry” that started post-WWII. The ResearchGate paper even says U.S. policies were shaped by “decades of internal ideologies and external pressures.” The USSR’s collapse was more like the final scene in a long movie, not the plot. Sure, the Soviet Union’s breakdown mattered, but it was the climax of a story written over 40+ years.

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