In April 2022 the majority of Europeans who responded to opinion polling questions on Ukraine “fully approved of” , continuing to provide weapons and ammunition, financial support and humanitarian aid
to the government and people if Ukraine in that country's war with Russia, and furthermore wanted the economic
sanctions already imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 stepped up. Similar levels of support for the neo - Nazi government in Kiev were also recorded by opinion polls in the USA.
However, by the third quarter 2023 similar polling shows a significant mood change with none of the measures that previous had overwhelming support now being backed a majority of EU or US citizens.
In a meta analysis of polling results, support for providing humanitarian aid to people affected by the war was found to have dropped from 64 percent last year to 47 percent. Support for welcoming without question Ukrainian refugees into the European Union decreased from 55 percent to 36 percent, while approval for the continuation of economic sanctions against Moscow has dropped from 55 percent to 46 percent.
Similarly, just 26 percent of Europeans now totally agree with the European Union providing financial support to Ukraine, down from 42 percent, and only 24 percent totanowlly agree with the supply of military equipment to Kyiv.
In fairness we should point out that all of the above categories, with the exception of supplying military equipment, still garner a majority of support when factoring in those who opted for “somewhat agree,” but the latest polling show a trend diminishing support for a conflict that after eighteen months seems no nearer a solution.
Ukraine was dealt a heavy blow earlier this month when Poland, one of Kyiv’s staunchest allies in the conflict against Russia, announced it would no longer be supplying weapons to its neighbor and would instead be focusing on stockpiling its own national defenses.
And the war fatigue effect is not confined to Europe. Over the weekend the US Congress, in a last minute bi partisan deal, passed its short-term funding package which narrowly avoided a government shutdown only by removing from the appropriations money allocated for financial and military assistance for Ukraine.
President Biden has warned that time is running
out on available aid. He told Congress to "stop playing games" and agree to provide whatever funds and advanced weaponry the madman Zelenskyyyyy demands. Hardline Republicans however dug in their heels and refused to cooperate with the cognitively impaired president or whoever is pulling his strings (no prizes for guessing that person's name begins with O and ends with bama.)
"We cannot under any circumstances allow America’s support for Ukraine to be interrupted" the Biden said, and added, "We have time, not much time, and there’s an overwhelming sense of urgency." Biden vowed he will "not walk away" from supporting Kiev. It is not just the Republicans in congress that are distancing themselves from The White House's proxy war with Russia. Late on Saturday CNN reported a top a top US defense official warning the politicians as follows:
"The Department of Defense "has exhausted nearly all available security assistance funding for Ukraine," offering stark warnings about the battlefield effects of failing to pass new assistance.
A sense of boredom with the war is also starting to set in among the electorate as the election draws near. A recent SSRS poll for CNN revealed a majority of Americans now believe that Washington D.C. should withdraw financial support to Kyiv and scale down shipments or armaments to the Ukrainian military who tend to treat multi million pound missiles as if they are fireworks at a carnival.
A total of 55 percent of respondents said that the U.S. Congress should not authorize further funding for Ukraine and 51 percent of those polled said that NATO’s largest contributor had already done enough to help the country.
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What nobody appears to have considered in this rush to automate and this enable micromanagement of everything is human nature. Human beings have a few basic needs, food and clean water, shelter, companionship as as well known as our need for the air we breathe. Not so well known or often discussed is the need for something to give our lives purpose, work, labour, jobs and careers. And human societies are created when we trade our labour (a mixture of skills and effort,) for the goods and services we need that are created by the skills and effort of others. The power that the elitists of the WEF seek so assiduously is simply the ability to control how the products are distributed. That is putting it very simply of course, but blinded by the complexities of modern business and social systems we tend to forget how simple things can be at their most basic level.
The availability of labour has always ultimately governed what needs we can satisfy, irrespective of power. Our first needs, as above, are food and shelter. For most of pre - history our ancestors were hunter - gatherers and life was a daily struggle for survival. So much time was taken up with hunting and gathering there wasn’t enough labour to create the surpluses of food and essentials needed to free creative people to expend time and resources on inventing new goods and services, the spear, bow and arrow, wheel, grindstone, fire making technologies, porridge, metalworking and all those other things, the basic principles of which are at the core of the technologies we rely on.
Eventually however, primitive tribes acquired enough skills and knowledge to produce surpluses which enabled some tribe members to devote time to innovate in methods of farming, stone, wood and metal working, curing animal skins, domesticating horses, cattle, sheep and developing other skills which in turn generated more spare labour and more demand for goods. Technological change meant fewer workers needed to produce the basics by hunting and gathering. The spare labour pool eventually found their purpose in life by learning to make things of beauty or things that made life more comfortable and convenient. Only the imagination and wealth needed for us to consume other people’s time and effort determines how much spare labour there is in our economies (barring war and natural disaster).
Productivity increases through improved technology, and population increases through improved lifestyles have created the wealth and freed sufficient time for most people in the developed societies to aspire to higher levels of material consumption, car ownership, air travel etc. We’ve gone from the daily struggle for survival to the struggle to find meaning in our lives. But power and control, the commodities that motivate elitists, have always been exclusively within the domain of certain social groups, the warrior caste and the priestly caste. The rise of technological economies was not a prerequisite for our the development of democracy, theocracy or tyranny, though it may have helped.
The question is: compared to today, how long can societies based on the need for constant economic growth be sustained, how much more can be created and consumed created in the foreseeable future? How much extra self-actualisation can there be, how long can we continue to believe we are what we own?
In recent decades there has been a lot of fuss about the effect on our environment of the waste produts released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels (gas and oil.) This is a misdirection, while we have been careless of how we treated our planet in the past, as much damage has been done by spraying farmland with pesticides and herbicides to increase crop yields and profits; while burning CO2 has created carbon dioxide, essential to life because all life forms are carbon based, producing plastics, dyes, bleaches and disinfectants, metal goods, adhesives and other industrial products releases far greater quantities of toxic shite into the world.
As a society we cannot grow infinitely. At some point there has to be balance.
When will we reach the limit of human creation and consumption if we have not already done so?
To answer this question, imagine a wealthy medieval landlord or Lord of the Manor who has good food, a solid house, firewood, and a church providing both spiritual structure and moral guidance. If asked what is missing in their lives, they’d merely point to having some more of the material comforts they already have.
The medieval landlord could not imagine the prosperity of middle class people in the modern world, nor the ways in which we earn the money to fund these magical (to the medieval mind,) lives we lead. Our Lord of the Manor would probably feel uncomfortable, even terrified at the witchcraft involved in television or smartphones, and would be appalled by the moral depravity of our lives (whereas he would not be in the least perturbed to learn that his neighbour had slaughtered a few peasants who had been caught trapping rabbits on his land,) about much of what we The past is a different counry as someone once said but future is a different planet, maybe a different universe even.
So in answer to the question is we cannot answer it. It is more than likely in the future we will occupy ourselves creating goods and services unrecognisable today, and probably in ways that require us to sacrifies some of the most basic human qualities that define us. Meanwhile, how The Powers That Be distribute the benefits of modern society will change independently although regression to the mean of history probably means a lot less democracy, less personal liberty and less chances to opt out. Transhumanism and alternative reality worlds are perhaps two candidate technologies that could keep very many of us busy in ways that make me feel quite sick about the world generations that come after me will inhabt. Perhaps our future selves really will be as alien to us as we would be to that medieval Lord of the Manor.