"America Freaks Out If Netflix Goes Down for 5 Minutes"

The gist

1. Wars are won by willingness to absorb losses, not weapons, and autocracies can demand unlimited sacrifice from their populations.
2. Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Ukraine show that smaller nations fighting for survival consistently outlast larger powers fighting wars of choice.
3. Galloway says Americans freaking out over Netflix outages reflects a real problem: democracies need a clear existential threat to sustain public support for war.
4. Pre-2022 polls showed Ukrainians had low willingness to fight Russia, yet they mobilized fully once the invasion began.