In the 20 interwar years, both Communism and Fascism (Business plot, Leo Strauss, etc.) both had an enormous intellectual following, even in the U.S. In Europe,

In the 20 interwar years, both Communism and Fascism (Business plot, Leo Strauss, etc.) both had an enormous intellectual following, even in the U.S. In Europe, there was an overwhelming sentiment that Democracy was weak and outdated, which is why the Nazis and the USSR saw each-other as their primary threat, and had both fully anticipated and planned for a European war for years prior. There's nothing like that out there today. Russian hatred for Islamism exceeds the U.S.'s, China is panicky about Xinjiang Province/Pakistan. China and Russia pretty much act purely on interests and have no ideology. While there are few parallels to WWII, there are some with WWI. I hope that stark alliances don't form.