After the self-dissolution of the CMEA and the Warsaw Pact Organization, the destruction of the Soviet Union and the socialist community, the adsorption of the former socialist countries and the republics of the former USSR, the ruling circles of the United States and Western Europe were gripped by success.
They did not want to take into account that the victory in the Cold War came to them not thanks to a systemic victory over a geopolitical opponent, but only at the cost of the betrayal of the Soviet elite.