If say, NYC were nuked tomorrow, most Americans would support an immediate surrender. Since fighting would deprive them of power, and their real enemy is the “Straight White guy.”

The Sri Lankans are not divided that way, as the West mostly is (this includes Israel). Most Westerners would rather millions of their fellow Westerners/nationals get nuked out of existence than fight against an enemy that seeks to nuke them.

It’s why you see Queers for Palestine, why women’s groups support Hamas, why women and gays and Blacks and Hispanics in general support Jihadists, oppose Israel’s existence wish the former success in wiping out the latter, and would celebrate another attack in the same manner they did 9/11. Their real enemy is the average White guy they’d have to share power with.

Which I think was the real message of WWI and WWII, how the average person in the West, particularly the US and Britain, mattered the most and the celebrated elites, from the Left, mattered the least.