The V sign used to mean “V for Victory”. Churchill used it all the time. Now, it has come to symbolize the abdication of martial and moral virtue, and tolerance at all costs.
The “Peace” sign, itself, is the inversion of a rune meaning “protection”, Algiz. It is quite literally a sign of surrender, which is made doubly powerful when added to the overt meaning assigned to it by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which was supposedly semaphore for “nuclear disarmament”, or something quite close to that. They are the ones who came up with “better Red than dead”. That they got Comintern funding and had numerous Soviet agents in their midst should surprise no one.
And the “Bug” is a Fascist symbol. It was HITLER HIMSELF who suggested that the “People’s Car” should be engineered to look like a Beetle.
I’ve posted this before, but not, I don’t think, here.
Ponder all of this. Ponder how fragile your reality really is, once you expose it to a historical lens.