Present Cold War reminds one of World War I in regard to European and American isolationism

I was trying to figure out where to start writing about this because it is so complex at this point.

Maybe the best way to start would be to say that America and Europe are isolationist because of the last 14 years of 9-11 events both in the U.S. and in Europe. They look at the present Sunni Shia sectarian war (or series of wars) depending upon your point of view and think: "We don't want to get in the middle of that or the terrorists of both sides will soon be striking here in our homes in Europe and the U.S.!"

So, as ISIL kills every Shia and Christian it can find and takes all their money and possessions whether they kill them or not, Europe and the U.S. stand back as far as they can to avoid further 9-11s in the U.S. and Europe.

However, it is different with Ukraine because it reminds us of Stalin and Hitler taking over countries during World War II. However, Russia sees this quite differently. From Russia's point of view, the collapse of the Soviet Union was the death of the Russian Empire. So, Putin's point of view is that he is restoring the Russian Empire and the U.S. and Europe are interfering with that happening.

So, these are diametrically different points of view each valid from each nationalistic perspective.

However, this is how wars begin and often this is how they stay until the end too depending upon the outcome.

But, isolationism of Europe and the U.S. is the most interesting thing about this new Cold War so far as it spreads through Syria, Iraq, now Lebanon, possibly Jordan and then onto Israel and beyond?

So, this looks in some ways like another World War I in the making in many different ways. By World War II, the U.S. had learned it's lesson of being isolationist. However, the Iraq War and the Afghanistan war in response to 9-11 haven't really accomplished anything while costing trillions of dollars and killing thousands of Americans and Europeans and likely hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanistianis. So, this is one reason why the U.S. is more isolationist now. Because all of that blood and money didn't accomplish really anything at this point. So, it was a complete waste and most people in the U.S. now believe that.

The last war that actually accomplished something likely was World War II, the rest have been a waste of lives and money.

But then again, that is the definition of a Cold War: "A complete waste of time and money" that keeps our nations each existing but not moving forwards. This is actually what nuclear weapons brought us during the last 73 years since the beginning of World War II.

However, now the alternative is complete annihilation of all living things on earth and of the earth itself until it looks exactly like the asteroid belt which is what happened the last time humanoids (likely our ancestors) nuked a world out of existence.