It’s more of an ‘inability‘ instead of “refusal”.

We don’t choose what we find [un]believable.

Attacks like this have effects are much wider than the bean count on specific ships or submarines put out of action.

Russia now has a choice. Invest even more in defense of the base (and never feel safe), or find a safer base (there isn't one short of a full withdrawl from the Black Sea)

Sounds like Wombs Race.

How do white supremacist billionaires like Musk feel about a Chinese guy having a 100 US born children??

Christianity is no one thing. There is a Christianity for everybody.

What I find amusing is that the “telos” they romanticize and venerate is just as profane or mundane as what they’re pooh-poohing.

They take something that’s emotionally/instinctually cherished (creation of another life), and mistake it for The Sacred or transcended.