Perceptions of importance in politics.

[frigidweirdo]

Generational divide over the threats facing Britain, new polling suggests

Russia, China and a possible Donald Trump-led US all feature, but younger people have different priorities, survey says

uk.yahoo.com

This is from the UK, but I'm sure it's pretty similar in the US too.

"Younger people believe that the war in Gaza should be the top foreign policy priority for the government, while the rest of the population believe that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the most important issue to address."

For the US and the UK, Israel is pretty unimportant. It doesn't impact very much.

The Ukraine and Russia are two of the biggest exporters of grain. The whole Arab Spring happened because these two countries had a bit of a drought and wheat and other such basic food stuff prices went up.

With a growing world population, because we're incapable of bring numbers down in the slightest, even with first world countries having negative numbers when it comes to people from their own country giving birth (even the immigrants with passports of their new adopted country aren't having many kids either). Food is going to be a HUGE resource unless we change how we grow things (ie, not in fields). Russia, if it takes the Ukraine, will have a HUGE amounts of arable land, will control most of the export market, and countries will literally be begging to be their friends, and with China too.... well... that's dictatorship sewn up for the rest of humanity.

But the young don't see this. They don't see the interconnectiveness of the Ukraine War. They like the Israel/Palestine issue because it's one of those ones where you can get really angry at things, but it serves no real purpose to anyone.

 

[Oddball]

Neither of them are of any direct importance to Murica....Likewise, neither are deserving to receive taxpayer loot.

 

[1srelluc]

Neither of them are of any direct importance to Murica....Likewise, neither are deserving to receive taxpayer loot.

Well I'm all for supplying the IDF with more D9s and ammo.....They have them some pushing to do.

 

[Dragonlady]

Neither of them are of any direct importance to Murica....Likewise, neither are deserving to receive taxpayer loot.

Yes, that's what people like you said about WWI and WWII. The USA was content to supply weapons and munitions and make a HUGE profit off the wars, just like now, but they refused to get involved because it was NOTHING to do with YOU.

It was wrong to assume this had nothing to do with you then, and it's wrong to say it has nothing to do with you now.

 

[Oddball]

Yes, that's what people like you said about WWI and WWII. The USA was content to supply weapons and munitions and make a HUGE profit off the wars, just like now, but they refused to get involved because it was NOTHING to do with YOU.

It was wrong to assume this had nothing to do with you then, and it's wrong to say it has nothing to do with you now.