Slightly leaning toward that moral progress in that area would become so cheap that people accept it.

Seems difficult to have a good relation to movements that explicitly reject any kind of moral universalism.

Well, at some point AI was supposed to be our Leviathan. The reason this turned so weird is that the US is now an autocracy clearly opposed to the concept of a liberal democratic world-state, which has been the unspoken goal of everything since WW2.

I think it's important to consider that the future enforcement of these principles depends on the more righteous system being capable of defeating any less righteous system that challenges it. A principle that precludes its own perpetuation would in some sense be inconsistent.

There's also this weird dilemma that it might be beneficial to be able to make credible threats that would be clearly bad if carried out, like the old MAD doctrine.

East Africa seems to contain several exceptions to this general stagnation in SSA for the past two decades or so. Might be useful to compare and see what might be replicated elsewhere.

It is possible to rationally prioritise between causes without engaging deeply on philosophical issues

That would depend on the similarity between the causes being compared. In the fully general case it seems it would be hard to compare without deep philosophical reasoning.

It seems you have assumed the existence of some rules that don't necessarily exist in absence of a state to uphold them, such as property or contract law. You can't use rules that depend on some unspoken authority, to argue against the existence of all authority.

Thanks, updated.

I do suspect neither knew initially about the explicit support for a bona fide nazi terror org (NRM), I only found it out in an article JWS dug up. Pretty clear it's a pro-Russian site though.

In that one they also recommend voting for the Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen), which is an explicitly national socialist party. They have a website in english, but I won't link from here. Instead I recommend the wikipedia article that describes pretty well how charming they are. Apparently there is an ongoing effort in the US to classify them as terrorists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Resistance_Movement