Yes that is true, but that was more an ideological war between America and the Soviet Union than a geopolitical battle over Europe between a weak Germany under the US umbrella and Russia. In some respects, you could say the Cold War sort of suspended the normality of European geopolitics - but with the reunification of Germany (which France and Britain even in 1991 had misgivings about) and Germany being very much the leading power of an expansionist EU, the old battle for hegemony on the European landmass has been revived. I mean, even today in Parliament something
from the 1830s was being debated in regards to the EU.