That’s how most of the wars are lost. Most people will justify the worst crimes their countries do as long as they feel they are personally benefiting from it.
Real missed opportunity to have forgone “neigbouring” and let readers decide for themselves if you were referring to putin in Ukraine or Trump in Iraq.
Start illegal war with neighbouring country and killing innocent civilians: I sleep.
Economy down the drain: real shit.
You might want to examine a graph of George W Bush’s approval ratings by year sometime
That’s how most of the wars are lost. Most people will justify the worst crimes their countries do as long as they feel they are personally benefiting from it.
In the end, what most people seem to care about is their own material conditions
Yup, Germany in WWII wasn’t an exception
I love how this applies to every country that invaded.
Real missed opportunity to have forgone “neigbouring” and let readers decide for themselves if you were referring to putin in Ukraine or Trump in Iraq.
Do you mean Trump in Iran, or Bush in Iraq?
Historically major changes in Russia happened from the top - general public never participated in the politics
Surely the Russian revolution involved the general public?
Given the huge civil war after, yeah, it did.
Which one? There were a couple.
All of them I would think.