The Cold War likes this War on Terror was a hoax a complete fraud. If we stopped giving Soviet Russia then the USSR billions of dollars worth of banking loans then it would have collapsed under every regime and the fact that its main financiers Who did fund the 9/11 hijackers stay in the US and the largest financier of international terrorism. That would be Abdullah Bin Ladin a long time CIA/Saudi intelligence contact and major shareholder in CIA, MI6, Rothschild-Soros linked companies like the Carlyle Group.

And how did the Russia "lose" the Cold War? Listening to too many triumfant speaches would make one believe it. Did not Soviet Union voluntarily break up using the provisions of the then existing Constitution of the Soviet Union that gave rights to members on separation? Soviet Union did not have to cut the deal with the West at the same time, as the West Germany was still occupied by Allies at the time. In fact, at the time of the fall of Berlin Wall, Germany and the Allies --- US, Britain and France --- did not have a peace treaty signed yet with Germany! Soviet Unions' decision to allow unification forced the Allies to sign the peace treaty with Germany as a whole, ending finally WWII. Did not then East Germany become free from WWII imposed occupation BEFORE West Germany became free? Not that simple, is it.