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[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Start illegal war with neighbouring country and killing innocent civilians: I sleep.

Economy down the drain: real shit.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

You might want to examine a graph of George W Bush's approval ratings by year sometime

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 75 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] mitram@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the end, what most people seem to care about is their own material conditions

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

Yup, Germany in WWII wasn't an exception

[–] msage@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

I love how this applies to every country that invaded.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

Do you mean Trump in Iran, or Bush in Iraq?

[–] lietuva@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Historically major changes in Russia happened from the top - general public never participated in the politics

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Surely the Russian revolution involved the general public?

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

Given the huge civil war after, yeah, it did.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Which one? There were a couple.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 16 hours ago

All of them I would think.