Well we just lived with it. That is how life was, I was born at the end of the 1940s and t.b.h. no-one spoke much about WW2, especially my parents. Mr. J2 was born 1933 and was an evacuee and watched bombs coming down and then did Nat. Service marching up and down the Iron Curtain, but that's just how life was. I saw the Iron Curtain in 1964 and that was scary, but, again, we just got on with living.
Yes, the Cuba crisis was worrying, but there was nothing we could do about it so we were all at school as usual during that day.
Really, I can't say much more, it was there and we knew that, but we got on with living and didn't think about it really. no point.
When the Berlin Wall came down I kept my young daughters up to watch the process on TV and, yes, I cried with relief, but that's about it.
Putin is a new threat and more uncertain.
You cope by more or less ignoring it. Is that any help?