I often hear that the cold war is over. They say communism died, the soviet union fell and the threat of nuclear word war III is over.
Let's make one fact clear. The cold war was NEVER about communism. Communism fell once Stalin came to power and Trotsky was thrown out. Years before the second world war. And before work started on nuclear weapons. The underlying cause was neither the threat of nuclear war. That was just a means of oppressing ones own people. Just a propaganda show from both sides. To make their people believe that fighting "communism" and "capitalism" was a just cause. The underlying cause was conflicting imperialism. From two superpowers. Due to the economic differences "sharing" the "puppets" was no option. This led to a conflict over puppet states. And many proxy wars.
Three types of puppet states exist. I included some examples too.
-A proletarian puppet(bulk workforce for cheap production).
-China, India, Mexico, South Asian countries.
-Resource puppet(countries with natural resources.)
-Saudi Arabia, Iran and India.
-Military puppet(countries for intimidation and for maintaining other puppets and power)
-Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Cuba.
These are the three tools of imperialists. And without these you can not support a superpower. How isolationist Germany fell during WWII. These puppet states are created through "liberation" as the west block would call it. And "revolution" as the east block would call it. Both of course lies. This led to many proxy wars. And proxy civil wars.
In 1952 the democratic elect prime minister of Iran was overthrown by the US and Brits. Leading to the Shah regime. Which provided oil for the west. Overthrowing a regime like this is not easy. So revolutionaries need help from somewhere. So they ask the soviets for help. And they get help. Thinking that the soviets where not imperialists. They helped them fight imperialists, right? Well, so came the Islamic revolution of 1979. Now they could have the oil for themselves. But now suddenly the soviet union had all the oil. In return for weapons. Counter weighting Israel as a military power in the middle east. Now the soviets had both military and resource puppet.
The same story happened many places in the world. In fact there where not a single anti-imperialist revolution that was not hijacked. But if the cold war fell. Then all the east bloc puppets would be either free or isolationist regimes by now. Well in no way is that true. The east Block still exists strong. With almost all of it puppets intact. And Russoa still stands strong. With mostly the same motives and methods. Just not as internally authoritarian. The west block still also has many puppets. And the military side of it? Well, they basically said. "Let's not nuke each other". But the proxy wars still rage on.
Syria, a good case. Lost to imperialists. Syria is a puppet of the China-Russia. As a military outpost. And buyer of weapons. But who supports the revolution there militarily? Qatar, UAE, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. All puppets of the west block. It has become a proxy war. Why does Obama only condemn the dictators of Iran and Syria(both east block), but not the Arab monarchies(all west Block)?. Well, he does not want them to become democracies. Where the west block loses power.
Do you think the cold war is over?