What I will say for sure is that defecting to any warmongering faction leads to the same decline that we've seen in genuinely good ideas like democracy, which is now a cover for fascism. Same thing happened to protecting Jews, which devolved into Zionism once wealthy warmongers infiltrated that idea. And the same thing happened to communism

Ideas. Are. Worthless. Anything can happen to an idea no matter how good it is

What must be done well is its execution