At the begin of ALL wars we are always highly motivated, with the media on board, politicians talking big...
There are two key differences here. It’s not American boys dying and we have a near compete media black out on the other side.
It should be easy to keep the masses going (supporting)... Since you don’t have the Republicans exploiting this in opposition politics like the Dems did with Iraq. The MSM, ~85% of it is in bed with the Dems or self professed liberals and you have a powerful pro administration spin on everything.
Will there be long term consequences? Yes. But even those will be rationalized away.
When people get diagnosed with a horrible disease, they go through stages before they finally accept reality. Some never get to that reality/acceptance point. They die while rationalizing or denying... It is completely possible that even though we get a dose of our own medicine in the proxy war game we just started, even though you are seeing nations like Pakistan, India, Egypt, drift from us and old friendships deepen Russia-China, or counter movements to the USD as the world’s reserve currency pick up steam, that people never really connect this back to Ukraine or understand what the implications are us and how it ultimately affects them.
Couldn’t agree more. We have rushed headlong into this debacle without thinking about the long term consequences. It all started with NATO expansion.