America is still neo-con and the biggest danger to world peace

Since the start of the millennium America has been the great danger to world peace, except to some extent when Obama and to a much greater extent Trump were presidents, though the latter started arming Ukraine.

You may have forgotten that General Wesley Clark said in 2003 how he had met a senior military officer in Washington in November 2001 who told him that the Bush administration was planning to attack Iraq ('Why?' 'I don't know') and then Syria, Lebanon (!), Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.

The neo-cons or the impulses that drove them never went away. They led to offering Nato membership to Georgia and Ukraine, to the colour revolutions, to American involvement in the 2014 revolution in Ukraine and to where the American empire is now.

Messrs. Trump and Vance have isolationist instincts in Europe but not when it comes to the Middle East. 

I hope they want peace with Xi as well as Putin.

I hope they want peace with Iran which, as Wesley Clark said in the clip I linked to above, knew she was under grave threat as soon as America conquered Iraq.

The Cold War (as opposed to containment) was unnecessary even when Stalin was alive but it made perfect sense at the time.

The new cold war makes no sense and the only hope of resisting the US defence establishment is if Trump wins.

American support for Israel (which started only with Lyndon Johnson) makes no sense to me either but is a given, whichever party wins the White House. 

But who knows if Donald Trump would be a peace president there too? 

If he is a genuine friend of Israel he will demonstrate, in Bill Clinton's phrase, tough love.