Bank Run at Silicon Valley Bank

Re:Bank Run at Silicon Valley Bank by smcl on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:10AM (#35092237)

You're downvoted but I don't think you're wrong. In general it seems to be the case that if you're waging a war and you're not getting completely crushed the electorate (or at least the "undecided" voters") tends to rally around whoever happens to be in charge. And indeed I think it's fairly safe to say that most agree that Thatcher benefitted electorally from a strong response to the invasion.

I should add that as a Scot I'm definitely not a fan of hers (you just grow up there knowing "Thatcher Bad") but I'm not quite at "put a stake through her heart and garlic round her neck"[0] :)

[0] - https://twitter.com/halaljew/status/1294414600566382598

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Re:Bank Run at Silicon Valley Bank by raspberry1337 on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:49AM (#35092845)

Gulf war didn't save Senior Bush from the bad-economy, neither did the Iraq War help Tony Blair's popularity.

It's a lot more complex than war-helps-current-leader, at least outside the US. It depends on the war and the context.

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Re:Bank Run at Silicon Valley Bank by smcl on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:16AM (#35093003)

Fair point, these are actually great counterexamples

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Re:Bank Run at Silicon Valley Bank by lostlogin on Friday March 10, 2023 @12:32PM (#35097812)

They are. That war is also unusual in that it was an attack on a country far away that wasn’t a threat to the US or UK, and there was little to be gained.

It was a strange time.

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