I mean, there are two side of the argument.

Pragmatically, fleeing would save your life.

But ethically, it feels cowardly. (I’m not calling anyone a “coward”, its just how I internally feel about such an act, if I were the one doing it)

  • Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de
    40·
    7 days ago

    I would need more to defend than just a Flag or Land area. I’m not killing myself or others for some line on a map. I.e. would it cause massive suffering for people if the war is lost?

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      28·
      7 days ago

      If the United States goes down, you’ll have a corporate oligarchy with the most powerful military in world history.

      Just saying.

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
          11·
          7 days ago

          I’ve read a lot of modern fiction set in the 1930s. The authors almost always have a character who can’t leave Europe because they are caring for an elderly parent.

            • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
              2·
              6 days ago

              Book review time!

              Alan Furst has been writing WW2 era spy books for a while now. “Night Soldiers” is about a young Bulgarian fisherman whose brother is killed by a fascist mob. He gets recruited by the KGB and after training in Moscow he is sent to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

              Philip Kerr wrote a series of books about a Berlin private eye. Ex-cop Bernie Gunther is a WW1 veteran who loves Germany and who could have left any time, but stayed on until it was too late.