I consider myself lucky.
Because my people understood the brutality of war, being on the losing side of WW2.
The Russians, being on the winning side, think war is something always positive because it reminds them of victory.
And they still want to fight that war, after one year of bloodbaths.
They have learnt nothing.
Americans have a similar view, although a key difference with us is that we have never had a war fought on our soil in living memory. The last actual war fought on US soil was the Civil War, and even then, most of it was in the South. Every war we've fought since then has always been somewhere else - far, far away. The World Wars were "Over There," as the song went. The closest we came to having our physical territory threatened was in WW2, when the Japanese Navy was powerful enough to attack Pearl Harbor, the Aleutians, as well as the shelling of the West Coast by Japanese submarines. They also launched those balloon bombs which hit and killed some people in the Western U.S. But even these events were relatively minor compared to the utter devastation they faced in Europe and Asia during the war.
Since then, we fought to a stalemate in Korea, and even lost the war in Vietnam, however even that didn't really affect the physical US territory or the quality of life or the governance of the US proper. We never saw the NVA marching down Pennsylvania Avenue in glorious, triumphant victory, as many war hawks ostensibly feared would happen if we didn't stop the commies in Vietnam. But that didn't happen, and America was never really directly threatened in that or in many other wars we've fought. Americans who were against the war and wanted it stopped did not do so because they were scared, cowardly, or felt threatened in any way. They were against it because they saw it as unnecessarily cruel and brutal, analogous to a 250-pound bully picking on a 98-pound weakling.
As a consequence, Americans don't seem to have any real genuine "fear" of war, other than in abstract hypothetical scenarios about nuclear war, which most sane people would fear. But all in all (as Captain Kirk might put it), Americans have made war "neat and painless," for all practical purposes.
Sure, we've gotten into wars with mighty behemoths like Grenada and Panama, but even the Iraq and Afghan wars were fought "over there," while we Americans sat back and watched it all on TV. Of course, we still care about our own countrymen who fought over there, as many go the extra mile in thanking the veterans, supporting the troops, and waving the flag at Fourth of July picnics.
However, all in all, Americans generally feel pretty safe, and anytime there is a war fever and a call to war, Americans do so without any fear that anything bad will ever happen to them. Even movies like
Red Dawn seem almost comical to many Americans. And even 9/11 didn't really change that view, since it was obvious that the only way anyone could cause any damage to America is by stealing our planes and using them. It wasn't as if the Al Qaeda Air Force came in and bombed New York.
Americans believe that we are virtually invincible, and that no one could ever harm us to any significant degree. The only real major public complaint about the military seems to revolve around the military going too far or behaving in a manner of that of a bully, not a defender of human rights.
