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You assume the Cold War actually ended.IMHO it didn't - what we're seeing now is the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. These new conflicts are things that WOULD have happened if the competing superpowers had allowed them. These guys were all clients of one side or the other, and we held them on a pretty short leash. Add to this fact that the real hotspots today were former Soviet clients that bought into and adapted Soviet ideology to their own circumstances. Now that Soviet ideology is as dead a Lenin himself, these people are pissed off. Since no one likes to take blame for making a bad decision, they're trying to pass the buck onto someone else -- the Westerners who made the RIGHT ideological decisions. Just an opinion, and probably poorly expressed, but there it is.