After the cold war ended, though, this self-regulating and rather self-important culture has come under scrutiny.
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This is comparable with the peaks of isolationist sentiment after the Vietnam war and after the cold war ended.
Even after the cold war ended and outsiders stopped backing the rebels, they fought on, with occasional interruptions, until April this year.
It may be no coincidence that some of the most promising peacemaking between Israel and the Palestinians took place soon after the cold war ended.
After the Cold War ended in 1989, artists colonised neighbourhoods such as Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg in eastern Berlin, drawn by the inexpensive rent and enormous, high-ceilinged apartments found in 19th-century buildings and unused department stores.
Unlike rival Connecticut conglomerate General Electric, United Technologies maintained an extensive presence in the military marketplace after the Cold War ended, and is continuing on that path by purchasing Goodrich even as it grows civil and commercial aerospace revenues.
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They also converted the first four vessels in the class to cruise-missile launchers with no nuclear role after the Cold War ended, which is why there are only 14 Ohios carrying ballistic missiles today rather than the 18 that were built.
But that was already the case 20 years ago, when Bill Clinton won the White House right after the Cold War had ended.
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Even George Bush, no dewy-eyed disarmer, negotiated cuts down to 1, 700-2, 200 apiece by 2012 (from the 6, 000 agreed upon after the cold war had ended) and was ready to go lower.
Bush faced a dramatically changing world, as the Cold War ended after 40 bitter years, the Communist empire broke up, and the Berlin Wall fell.
Jimmy Carter slashed spending because the Vietnam War had just ended and Bill Clinton did the same because he entered office right after the Cold War concluded.
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