Cold War I was long, grinding, expensive frightening, occasionally bloody and anything but glorious and decisive. Nobody wants to go through that again.
A lot of people, including otherwise intelligent people on this site, are in denial and just don’t seem to want to admit that we don’t have any choice in the matter. We are in a cold war and we will either win it or we will loose it.
A lot of them are going to be surprised at the next escalation, methinks. And continue to deny.