Insane as it seems, we appear to have a political/social Left that wants to have all three at once.

Add in the fact that British atomic weapons and systems depend in a large part on US know-how and support.

Chases Eagles on February 26, 2024 at 8:30 pm said:
“Who would fight Ivan for this? What comes next is mass starvation.”

It appears that many young men are simply checking out and unwilling to defend anything – except presumably their own lives . If that is, YouTube trends are to be believed.

And that disengagement from comittment to, or legal and moral entanglement in, a losing proposition, includes a stance toward some women who seem to have become from one point of view, their point of view, remarkably dysfunctional and toxic.

And that is not in the clinically psychological sense as described by Pew which I have been marvelling at, but moral. And that unlike the startling Pew research report of two years ago, does not even seem to be news.

From 2005
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/slut-culture/article739822/

Our ” society” then, taken as an aggregate of associations with regard to which one is expected to pledge allegiance or loyalty or at least express some fellow feeling, has become “de-moralized”. The overarching associative game no longer being seen as worth the cost of the candle the ordering rules and customs a dead letter, the prize negligible. This, is to the alarm of many professional conservatives who blather on about sheepdogs and male sacrifice as if those concepts could somehow stir the disaffected who sneer at both the game as constituted, and the players.

This does not mean there are not still competitions to be engaged in and diversions to be found and enjoyed as the old anthropological foundations evaporate away. It just means that it will no longer be deliberately propped up and its value affirmed as an article of faith, although mere living does some of that … like burning calories while you sleep.

It’s just that when individuals look at their erstwhile fellows their first reaction in a significant number of cases is, “You’re, not worth the trouble”

Secular moralists have been commenting for thousands of years now, about how when societies reach a certain comfort level wherein the costs of laxness can be deferred or absorbed by stored capital, and exemptions from the rules become the rule, some significant portion of the population becomes frivolous, cruel, self destructive and nihilistic. Or perhaps they were always disposed in that manner, but the material and moral conditions were not such that they could get away with it.

Regardless, we might get to see how that plays out in our own lifetimes.

The question then will be, with whom and what do you keep faith, and who and what do you write off?

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may
come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.