Good point. Probably the Americans have dissuaded them from building a nuclear warhead in exchange for guaranteed protection?
Ukraine gave up its nukes to the russians after the fall of the soviets in exchange for such “guarantee”.
In Europe the fact that the US dragged its feet entering WWII is still within living memory. Asian countries perhaps are still to learn this lesson.
Of course, the people do not want wars, but so far most people in the world have forgot the old way of unite to makes rulers obey so they obey instead.
UK economy failed due to excess cleptocracy from very few, UK people start to be tired enough to riot. Perhaps they stop, perhaps they grow to the point of a full scale action against the government, I do not know, but that's to me an evident start/harbinger of a civil war.
If there’s a correlation between being a racist thug and being impoverished, the causation is likely low intelligence.
Ukraine is like Afghanistan 2.0 ; the imminent fall/break of Russia.