Cold War? I see it more as a psyop against the people of both countries then a war per se.I think it's creators see it the same,and we are still under it,be a different name,War on Terror.

[... On the eve of the Cold War with Russia the mood was grim and the evaluation of the American military was summed up in the words of General Doolittle.

"It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. There are no rules in such a game…if the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of "fair play"must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever means than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy."

General Doolittle stated the post war environment between the US and USSR when he declared that a dirty war was going to be waged using the most un-American of methods to achieve victory over the USSR at any cost.

The American public, should they examine these methods would repudiate them, so these methods must be kept from them, the alternative being the risk of losing the war against Communism.

In short a secret war had begun between desperate men who would stop at nothing to win. The most obvious results of the 50 year war were the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads aimed at US and USSR population centers and military installations and the trillions of dollars spent to create the strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction.

The most important legacy of this undeclared war are the patriotic crimes carried out in our name without the knowledge of the American people, and the erosive effect of a sustained war on democratic institutions.

The declaration by Barry Goldwater that, "extremism in defense of liberty is no vice" may have been a bit premature in its conclusion....]
https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2018/11/part-2-monarch-cold-war-45-95-mkultra.html