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It's because the Russian people support what Putin is doing.

"public support ranging from 55% to 75%, with relatively little fluctuation"

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/how-stron...

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So did the US population. [1] The one thing the US does very well is manufacturing concent.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_in_the_United...

In polls, most American people supported the Iraq war

https://news.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-america...

And? Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Hopefully the world has learnt not to repeat Iraq.

Of course not, but that's not what this is about. It's an answer to your comment, because you wrote "It's because the Russian people support what Putin is doing.". But if that was true, wouldn't the US would have been boycotted, as well? But it didn't happen

Nothing would see me happier than to wake up one morning and read that Putin is swinging from a gallows somewhere but I would take any polls of the Russian population with a grain of salt given the history of people being jailed, disappeared, and/or assassinated for speaking out against his regime.

> It's because the Russian people support what Putin is doing.

How could you possibly know that this is the reason?

What is it about these topics that cause people to think this way? Imagine the mess we'd have if we wrote software using this quality/form of logic, it might be as big of a mess as the political world.

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