Unless the goal of the Cold War was simply to dismantle the Soviet Union and its closest allies, I don’t think that it’s perfectly accurate to say that it ended (in either the 1990s or elsewhen).
The anticommunists continued to struggle against popular communist parties in the Russian Federation and elsewhere, they are trying and failing to dismantle the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Cuba, the liberal reforms in the People’s Rep. of China and the Socialist Rep. of Vietnam were poor substitutes for overthrowal, and so far the anticommunists haven’t balkanized the Russian Federation.
If we view the Cold War as essentially a complex class war (which would be quite reasonable), then it certainly never ended, or even been on pause.
In this sense, it didn’t start in 1945 either, but at least half a century prior
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Ah i see that you are looking at cold war as phase of the class war. That is certainly relevant view too.
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It was not very consistent, rather normal single bouts of opportunistic conquests and local domination in Americas. WW2 changed much, it was second round of how Lenin described WW1 - shifting and consolidation of global imperialism. Since then US purposefully pursues world hegemony.
It started 1792 when that monstrosity was born. Thanks Fr*nce.