I'll try to be upbeat even though it's hard to feel it. Early in WW2 the Germans were rolling over all opposition like it was nothing. The managed to trap the entire English army on the beach at Dunkirk in France with no hope of evacuation. IT appeared the war was lost and many, maybe most, politicians in Britain were prepared to surrender. But Churchill refused. He was considered delusional by many but he felt the fight had to continue. If the Navy couldn't rescue the troops than the citizens would, he decided. And so small private boat owners were called on to sail across the channel and ferry back British soldiers, as many as they could carry safely. Miraculously they managed to pull it off and the English army was saved.
I'll try to keep Dunkirk and Churchill's steadfast refusal to surrender in mind.