I cant really decipher and extrapolate on all the views expressed. But I mean you get this sense of purely self-interested motivations, uniqueness, destined grandeur, eternal resilience and overwhelming fear/paranoia - quite remarkable. Fundamentally to explain the main cause behind Old/New world differences then I think you could say that the American population has barely suffered since the civil war and thus they long for and are tunnel-visioning towards a more and more radically transformed future. Meanwhile the memories of terrorized Russian and Chinese peasants haunt their people, making them attempt to prevent somekind of universalist ultra-modernity and its probable resulting inhumanity. Europe seems irrelevant, without a will, to side with whoever influences it the most.