If only the Cold War were really over.

Russia can’t even successfully invade their neighbor, a former USSR member

But the USSR was able to propogate to the CCP which is propping up former USSR allies for proxy war including Cuba, Venezuela, Indonesia, North Korea, and Iran. They regularly prop up the Russian economy enabling the invasion of Ukraine. Recently they’ve expanding military coverage to Africa under the guise of space exploration. Among their more aggressive actions is supplying the weapons used by Hamas to attack the music festival and reignite the war used by Israel as an excuse to commit genocide. China also uses TikTok as a way to push their agenda and explicitly supported the Trump reelection which led to the largest rightward shift in youth voters ever recorded. China has managed to reclaim Hong Kong and is planning to conquer Taiwan, both notably US Allies in the east. They’re also highly aggressive with India, Australia, Phillipines, and Japan.

The cold war is still on. The tyrannical communist dictatorships are still around and trying to get bigger all the time.

Some of your claims are questionable. Cuba hasn’t been a serious flashpoint for a proxy war in decades, and Indonesia is generally close with the US. Their presence in Africa has largely been predicated on naked economic reasons, not so much space exploration. Hamas does use Chinese weapons, but to my knowledge there’s no link to China itself - they’re just smuggled weapons of various national origins. Hong Kong was always going to revert back to China - it was agreed upon in the lease China signed with the UK back in the 19th century. While the UK is a US ally, it would be strange to assert Hong Kong, specifically, was.