He is young, nothing wrong with that especially if he is exceptionally brilliant, or autistic.
Anyone in his business on the side of good is hawkish on Russia and China.
The idiom like rats fleeing a sinking ship, used in reference to people abandoning an enterprise once it seems likely to fail, has shown great linguistic tenacity, having been in regular use for over four hundred years. However, the wording and form of this standby has changed quite a bit over the centuries.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/like-rats-fleeing-a-sinking-ship-history