Anti-war pacifists... Then not

I have a low opinion of self-proclaimed anti-war pacifists - especially those who make a big thing of it: the Peace Studies type. 

Although I understand it, and from the inside; because I was that way myself as a young man (for obvious reasons). 

But what really gets me, is how fragile and evanescent is pacifism - no matter how long-established and entrenched by years of reading the relevant books, watching the relevant TV plays, and movies. 

In 2022 nearly-all these anti-war pacifists upper-middle-class intellectuals, bureaucrats, managers; became fanatically pro-war activists overnight. 

And continuing.  

Why this 180 degrees, instant and effortless, change of "convictions"?  

Apparently, very simply, because they were told to become fanatically pro-war by their favourite newspapers and the BBC. 

That, in a nutshell, illustrates the depth and strength and seriousness of ideological anti-war pacifist convictions - in practice.