Talk of imminent war stalks the discourse in the United Kingdom, yet even the legacy media is reckoning with the reality that many young Britons feel the government has actively sabotaged their interests and are wondering why they ought to risk their lives for such a state.
Both NATO and Westminster have spent the past two years drumming the idea into the British public that the post-Cold War era is over and the West is now in a 1930s-like pre-war state, if not already in the prelude of ‘Hybrid war’. The leitmotif of these warnings is the coming conflict, be it successfully deterred or not, will be a “whole of society event” and young Britons will be a particularly important part of that.
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