From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics
Subject: Re: Austrisize Ukraine
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 03:03:15 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 14:05:22 +0300, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
> Dhu on Gate, <news:10gtv77$3dd90$5@dont-email.me>
>
>> I DO NOT UNDERSTAND why Finland has abandoned
>> it's post WW2 stance on Russia: they were in
>> a lucky place, economically and politically.
>
> Unliable media + 'madness of crowd' + democratic populism.
> Media, 'activists' whip/egg popular emotional excitement up.
> Politicians then seek to comply with the (real or apparent)
> herd emotion which results in a policymaking that turns out
> irrational under a saner assessment.
Prob'ly right. Dismally so...
Dhu
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