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218: Frank Furedi: The road to Ukraine

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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The Decline of the Military Spirit in the Ukraine War

I want to ask you about something you've written about a fair bit over the past year, including in your book. You got a lot of flak for this when you first started raising it a year ago,. about the decline of the militaristic spirit or the willingness of people in Western societies to make certain sacrifices. And we can see this in Western militaries themselves. They're now more obsessed with using correct pronouns and respecting people's identities. It was only a couple of years ago that the British Army was advertising for snowflakes.

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