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Russia did not lose the cold war, they just played to the West's ego while they learned how to manipulate information and slowly destabilize the rest of the world.
In this essay I will..
You can lose a war, hold a grudge and then start a new war. You don't need to rewrite history to say that the west is once again at war with Russia.
Define "the west". Because the government of the now divided states of southern northern america is not it, they suck Putin's wiener.
Tbh i don't think there are any real "winners" from the cold war. Except maybe those who own defense, munitions, and oil companies/stocks.
In my view, the "collapse" of the Soviet Union was actually just the elites sloughing off their actual obligations to the masses, allowing them to enjoy their wealth and power openly while the ordinary people rot away. For the most part, the government officials who had been in charge of state assets in the USSR ended up owning them personally, creating the "oligarchs" we know and love today.
Soviet Union fucking fell. They did lose, Russia is fighting a new fight now