The cold war is over also means:
That the Dems/etc can no longer point at Russia saying “Look, here’s the ENEMY!”
So eyes turn to the Dems ... who is the enemy then?
It explains the panic.
Without a set of global enemies, how are you going to coerce people into giving up their personal information, being frisked at airports, having their personal lives, in almost every respect surveilled.
Now your tax records are tied to your medical records - that was the shining achievement of Obamacare.
Without all of this, you can’t scare people into doing what you want to do, which was Kissinger’s point - that you could create a situation in which people were so frightened they’d give up every freedom to ensure protection.