I was surprised by how overwhelmingly positive support was, I mean, you don’t need too much brain to understand the geopolitical context and motivation behind it. What’s left of your economy, and by extend, job, lifestyle, if a single bad-faith actor can put your factory out of business? Or threatens to let you freeze to death in the middle of the winter?
It was fun to see even the far left/right parties over here (who have open ties and funding from Russia) refuse to contest that. Complaints I’ve seen were within the “I get my facts from Facebook” crowds, who also happen to be incapable of understanding their energy bills and are oblivious to the subsidized/capped prices their governments applied to them (often to a greater extent due to their unfavorable financial situation, how ironic).
That’s interesting, the only support I’ve seen for it amongst regular citizens of Europe is from people that both:
Are well-off enough to be able to take in the price increase without seeing their quality of life impacted
Wanted to inflict economic hardship on Russian citizens through sanctions as a form of punishment for Putin’s policies
Even though I wasn’t very much affected by the inflation, I understand the reasons those sanctions aren’t supported by the majority of people here in Europe, and I sympathize with the hardship of people who already before that were struggling to make ends meet and feed their family.
You can categorize me with the humanitarians. And I already know where to categorize you.
From what I can tell a majority of Europeans DO support sanctions. Do you have anything other than your personal anecdotal evidence to counter this data?
I was surprised by how overwhelmingly positive support was, I mean, you don’t need too much brain to understand the geopolitical context and motivation behind it. What’s left of your economy, and by extend, job, lifestyle, if a single bad-faith actor can put your factory out of business? Or threatens to let you freeze to death in the middle of the winter?
It was fun to see even the far left/right parties over here (who have open ties and funding from Russia) refuse to contest that. Complaints I’ve seen were within the “I get my facts from Facebook” crowds, who also happen to be incapable of understanding their energy bills and are oblivious to the subsidized/capped prices their governments applied to them (often to a greater extent due to their unfavorable financial situation, how ironic).
I don’t know which category that leaves you.
That’s interesting, the only support I’ve seen for it amongst regular citizens of Europe is from people that both:
Even though I wasn’t very much affected by the inflation, I understand the reasons those sanctions aren’t supported by the majority of people here in Europe, and I sympathize with the hardship of people who already before that were struggling to make ends meet and feed their family.
You can categorize me with the humanitarians. And I already know where to categorize you.
From what I can tell a majority of Europeans DO support sanctions. Do you have anything other than your personal anecdotal evidence to counter this data?
https://news.yahoo.com/poll-reveals-65-europeans-support-130000671.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC-0LH9gd9Vm_t1oZFFK57_FZZkKOQBTPIoliJYqzCso-S4ppu7ZvsSzultkUJNtkqDbVYmO8Ek6CNScw3_2wdkbxebP-UdBIuR76R0gv9qXWWoVpURVdTCyOaX9N9vdyPhAYXKGkR7wGxBnEW_HQvlGcnN-gRunNrjDSrrGbq1l
Edit: here’s an even more recent source
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220616IPR33222/eu-wide-survey-in-face-of-ukraine-war-citizens-close-ranks-in-support-of-eu