{"id":1423056,"date":"2022-04-07T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423056"},"modified":"2022-04-07T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:01:15","slug":"the-people-most-willing-to-risk-nuclear-war-with-russia-are-those-less-likely-to-fight-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-people-most-willing-to-risk-nuclear-war-with-russia-are-those-less-likely-to-fight-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The People Most Willing To Risk Nuclear War With Russia Are Those Less Likely To Fight It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-people-most-willing-to-risk-nuclear-war-with-russia-are-those-less-likely-to-fight-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423056&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-kampus-production-8353825.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The threat of nuclear war looms over the war in Ukraine. A war between the United States or its North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia represents a credible potential threat of doom for much, if not all, of mankind. This should be an obvious opinion-shaping factor for the average person, but it seems frustratingly unmentioned or glossed-over in media coverage. We have become less aware and less intelligent than our Cold War predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>And less intelligent we would be to embrace a potential nuclear world war. A casual review of my social media feeds has made this painfully clear. People who are educated, gainfully employed, and recognized as such have written terrifying vagaries like, \u201cforce will be used;\u201d \u201cmore and more lethal aid;\u201d \u201cAmericans will die. Europeans will die. Russians will die;\u201d and, \u201cIt is time to directly confront Moscow militarily with all of NATO\u2019s power and force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, polling shows these attitudes are not merely anecdotal LinkedIn anomalies. A Rasmussen poll from early March <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rasmussen_Poll\/status\/1498778759893327872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1498778759893327872%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investmentwatchblog.com%2Frasmussen-poll-if-a-wider-war-breaks-out-in-europe-should-the-u-s-military-be-involved%2F\">revealed<\/a> just 37 percent of Americans earning under $30,000 annually supported U.S. military involvement in the event of a wider war in Europe; a staggering 66 percent of those earning more than $200,000 supported such an endeavor in that poll. The most shocking \u2013 and, arguably, most troubling \u2013 numbers were the 51 percent of those earning $50,000-100,000, and 52 percent of those earning $100,000-200,000, who would support such military action.<\/p>\n<p>The opinions of the upper and lower classes are easily understandable. Low-income individuals are unlikely to fare well in event of a global catastrophe; high-income individuals are most likely to find refuge in event of war and enjoy diversified financial portfolios and are least likely to send children into combat. Why, though, should a slight majority of the professional-managerial class support such a potential calamity?<\/p>\n<p>I propose this partial explanation: many segments of our society are no longer capable of nuance. Everything must be black-and-white. If Vladimir Putin has engaged in an illegal, immoral, and irrational war in Ukraine (to be clear, he has), he must be \u201cliterally Hitler,\u201d as some of the more profound Twitterati have declared. Or, at the very least, he must be some kind of one-dimensional Bond villain. These interpretations are unhelpful in a highly complex, interconnected world with nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the professional-managerial class must stake a claim to its importance and moral superiority. Professor and author Catherine Liu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2021\/01\/21\/virtue-hoarders-our-scolding-elites\/\">suggests<\/a> this segment of society is \u201cconvinced of its own unassailable position as comprising the most advanced people the earth has ever seen. Additionally, it insists on \u201cits ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary, fundamentally superior and more virtuous ways.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>If the working class doesn\u2019t want its children to go to war, the professional class must maintain they are simple-minded. If Russian political interference (whether facts support it or not) is connected to former President Donald Trump, then the professional class must despise Russia to maintain a place in polite society. Disappointingly, even something as terrible as nuclear war seems worth the effort of the professional class to separate itself from the working class.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, a significant percentage of the upper-middle class, from both left and right, is deeply opposed to escalating this war. Many of us within the younger part of its ranks have never seen the United States win a war, even against relatively inconsequential countries in the developing world. <\/p>\n<p>The memories of 2008\u2019s recession haven\u2019t faded; nor have doubts over our entire electoral process. Neither party seems capable of governing for more than two years. In light of all this, why should we trust those urging us into a war that will inevitably further disrupt our lives, if not end them outright? Escalation of this war is an idea the professional-managerial class should reject unequivocally.<\/p>\n<p>So I implore my fellow upper-middle-class Americans to stop the irresponsible saber-rattling. This isn\u2019t our war. This isn\u2019t an excuse to send our children to slaughter. This isn\u2019t worth nuclear missile attacks. Challenge Putin\u2019s madness, but please don\u2019t get us into a war we will surely regret.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Michael O\u2019Shea is a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute. He is part of the Budapest Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Hungary Foundation and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat of nuclear war looms over the war in Ukraine. 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