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A whole lot of (mostly-)little things, over the past half-ish century, have lead them to seriously doubt the existing social order. Volunteering for military service is something of an all-in endorsement of that order.

Though it doesn't help that British kids have felt no visceral "we're at risk from $Powerful_Enemy!" fears since ~1990.

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One has to wonder if a majority of lower class able bodied men would particularly care if an enemy took over.

Wasn't the lower class overwhelmingly pro brexit? They are xenophobic.

One only needs to look at the Glorious Revolution to see what a hostile takeover of Britain by a foreign power which pays lip service to Britishness would look like.

Also one rather needs ones army to be xenophobic, a xenophilic army would be somewhat poor at its job.

I've been musing that the majority of ~canon fodder~ lower class working men are so destructively disengaged from main stream western culture that a new branch of Islam with 19th century western sensibilities - nationalism, nativism, chauvinism, etc. - would have very little trouble in taking over.

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