The short post below got me thinking about Singapore vs Ukraine. Ukraine faces physical annihilation but Singapore faces spiritual annihilation. The death of the body vs the death of the soul.
Singapore epitomizes Francis Fukuyama's idea of the last man - one who has secured ultimate material comfort at the cost of losing what it means to be human. It is worse than UAE as there's no religion. It's worse than Japan, Korea, China - as there's no national mythos and external enemy to unite against.
A short summary of the civilizational challenge facing Singapore based on what
@hoeflatoor talks about and Fukuyama's work:
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I'm really not sure what Singapore could do to address this. My wackiest idea would be a targeted military operation against Malaysia to secure Johor and some oil fields.