No peace treaty ended the Cold War, so it remains unfinished. Even though the ideological and military confrontation of those times is far behind us, it is being replaced with a new stand-off – between Russia, on one hand, and the US and some of the “New Europeans” on the other.
此外，北约东扩意味着欧洲自身尚未摆脱冷战的阴影。没有哪项和平协议宣布冷战结束，因此冷战仍在进行中。尽管那些时代的思想和军事对峙早已不复存在，但新的对峙形式又取而代之——对峙的一方是俄罗斯，而另一方则是美国和某些“新欧洲国家”。