Then we have to pay for them. Taxes must go up, or benefits go down. Or realistically both.
The boomers are retiring, and going to the biggest benefit draw in US history. No amount of screaming and declaring about how so and so is “owed” will change that.
Because even in the bad old days, the old USSR wanted Constantinople back. The new/old Russia has it as a strategic long term objective.
Israel is at a cross roads. They have functioned as a colony of first the UK and now the US for all of their history. The UK has long since stopped supporting them, and with the decline of religion in the US there is little political reason for the US to continue to support Israel unconditionally. The anti bill of rights bill that was recently passed is a great example of it.
The next decade will determine the political future of Israel.
Marriage as a social institution in the west is gone. It is a luxury good. In that “Nice to have, not needed”. Young women don’t want it as they can get support from the government. Young men fear it as it can lead to a lifetime of payments and judgements.
Now you have the average age of loss of virginity going up, with no marriage, and most men are seeing there is little chance for a relationship.