From Ukraine last year, to Nagorno-Karabakh last month and now Israel, it really does feel like there's a trend of people becoming more comfortable with using large-scale unilateral violence to solve problems. That trend itself greatly worries me; each instance normalizes and legitimizes the next.

Ideology is now taking center stage once more, rather than practical considerations & cooperation. The invasion into Ukraine definitely started the polarization cascade that is now causing heightened tensions.

There's now proof that national self-defense can't be left emaciated, as it invites adversarial attacks.

I worry that it's something worse than ideology: it's resentment.

Opposing ideologies structured around and harnessing resentment. Ref. 20th century Part 1.

What growing ideologies exist that are orthogonal to resentment?