After the 2nd world war, we said surely this is the last big one, with understanding that ww4 would be fought with sticks and stones.
we might have thought nazi ideology would be gone too, but we decided to cognitively coherently separate pro US/NATO nazis from anti-NATO nazis, chasing ghosts of communism and warmongering towards nuclear powers became the cool thing again so easily.
After the 2nd world war, we said surely this is the last big one, with understanding that ww4 would be fought with sticks and stones.
we might have thought nazi ideology would be gone too, but we decided to cognitively coherently separate pro US/NATO nazis from anti-NATO nazis, chasing ghosts of communism and warmongering towards nuclear powers became the cool thing again so easily.