On this anniversary of the formal end of WWII in Europe (May 7th), Cunningham's article reviews real history to clarify what he means in this paragraph:
This ongoing reality of conflict is because the Second World War, as with the First World War, was not merely about belligerents confined in time and space. These conflagrations were really about imperialist power conflict and hegemony whose dynamics still persist to the present day."To the present day", of course, refers to current events in Ukraine.
He provides much more historical detail of the European part of WWII in an article entitled "Western Reset of Fascist Aggression Towards Russia" posted at Strategic Culture.