The cold war was never over. Russia just laid low and rebuilt with a new alliance called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Was that while we were busy bombing Christian Serbs for the Islamics, giving away a third of Christian Macedonia to the Islamics, arming Muslim Pakistan to the teeth while ignoring how it gave nuclear technology to Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lybia and Egypt? Or was it while we kept giving the PLO "gifts" and forcing the Israelies to commit national suicide?