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Won? You mean stalemate.
Nah, the capitalists won. The USSR is gone, China is only communist in name, Vietnam is rapidly adopting the blueprint of the new Chinese economy, NK has never become anything, Laos is still more in line, but is also moving the direction of it's neighbors.
And yet Russia is currently fighting for more influence in Europe, trying to destabilise countries with misinformation, bots, spies, etc - causing extremist parties, both left and right wing, to rise (partly by helping them with misinformation campaigns, partly by directly giving them money), polarising the population, and will probably successfully annex Ukraine if Trump gets elected (which isn't unlikely currently), allowing him to start the game he's been playing with Ukraine since 2004 with the next country.
The time to lay back and stop worrying about the cold war isn't here yet. There has been a break, but it's fully running again.
Yeah but this is different, that's all geopolitics. The cold war was more about economic systems, which capitalism has undoubtedly come out on top of.
I have to disagree, I'd say the main focus of the cold war was influence. You don't build a huge military to show others that your economic system is better, you do it to have more influence.
Why would you even care which economic system others use? It's better for you when other countries are economically weaker, so it's better when they use an economic system of which you think it's inferior.