Unless the goal of the Cold War was simply to dismantle the Soviet Union and its closest allies, I don’t think that it’s perfectly accurate to say that it ended (in either the 1990s or elsewhen).
The anticommunists continued to struggle against popular communist parties in the Russian Federation and elsewhere, they are trying and failing to dismantle the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Cuba, the liberal reforms in the People’s Rep. of China and the Socialist Rep. of Vietnam were poor substitutes for overthrowal, and so far the anticommunists haven’t balkanized the Russian Federation.
If we view the Cold War as essentially a complex class war (which would be quite reasonable), then it certainly never ended, or even been on pause.
Ah i see that you are looking at cold war as phase of the class war. That is certainly relevant view too.
I think I tagged you because I was half asleep when I wrote that. But looking now I’m glad I did, because I think it makes sense to subdivide the 19-21st centuries into domestic class war on one hand and inter-imperial conflict on the other. And you are correct, the post ww2 is definitely the era for US global hegemony