Quite a lot of people now have no understanding of the cold war either, considering it old history at best. It is more relevant right now than what's happened between 1991 up until last week. Even if you were paying attention in 2009 and 2014 and saw those events as dress rehearsals for last week, it's still shocking how a founding member of the U.N., a permanent member of the Security Council, has allowed romatic notions and fear of encroaching democracy end his kleptocracy into the biggest risk to returning us right back to the cold war. And yes, it's probably true that Cold War 2.0 will be more dangerous and expensive than before. This will have a disproportionate cost, but everyone will pay in one form or another.