Americans are still not worried enough about the risk of world war.

This is 100% absolutely correct. Highest risk of world war and nuclear war right now since 1962. We are close to the edge and do not even realize it. We might step back from it. We might not. Time will tell. But it is right to be worried about this as history lately is rhyming an awful lot with what occurred in the 1930s.

It’s an enormous fuck-up that we didn’t help Ukraine and the rest of Europe push Putin right on out of Ukraine. We made that mistake, and now neo-fascists and authoritarians are emboldened everywhere. If Europe does not step up, the Baltic states and Poland will be consumed by Russia at some point in the next 3-7 years.

And Vladimir Putin, emboldened by Chinese production and intelligence support, and having staked not only his legacy but his regime’s entire reason for existence on the conquest of territory in East Europe, will have little reason to stop fighting no matter what the U.S. says. The U.S. could push Ukraine to cede land for peace, and it probably wouldn’t matter, because Putin wants all of Ukraine, and then he wants other European countries too

This is the problem exactly.