Your first post went on at length (and with sources!) about how rules aren't worth anything because they'd be broken anyway.
Example: German submarines attacking a civilian ship in WWI.
Unfortunately you missed the most important point in your story - which is that this ship wasn't so innocent and civilian after all.
Rather than ignoring the rules, the Germans broke them in retaliation AFTER the Americans had done so first.
The message here is not "rules never work", as your first post implies.
It's rather "if you (US) brake the rules, expect the others (Germany) to do so as well in retaliation."
The fact that Lusitania was carrying arms does not support your initial point but rather changes the story and implications entirely.
I can only find the part where it says
> “If this sad decline is not addressed then post-Brexit Britain and the next generation will surely pay the price.”
...which is a fair statement, I'd say.