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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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