Extremely doubtful. Floating, the Tarawa is just too damn valuable to leave out of formal military hands. All sides would want to lay claim to it and you can guarantee a SF raid or two would be on the cards.
Look at the USS City of Corpus Christi and the efforts made to recover it - and it doesn't have a fraction of the capability of an amphious landing ship (even if it is nuclear powered).
If the Tarawa couldn't be reclaimed for TF34, there's a high probability in my mind it would have been sunk. It would even warrant using one of the few remaining aircraft to throw the last couple of missiles at it.
If Nato didn't finish it off, you can bet the Pact would give it a good go - having what is a essentially a light aircraft carrier/military base located just off the Vistula delta would be a totally unacceptable prospect, even if immobile. Sure it only operates VTOL and STOL aircraft, and fuel is low, but just the capability alone is a scary prospect for the Pact leadership, especially since they can't exactly attack and overrun it with tanks and infantry like a conventional airstrip.
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