国民が戦争を欲するのではなく、政治家、銀行家、企業が戦争を欲するのだ、と。
うーん、どうかな？ では、戦争に熱狂する国民はどうなのか？
ということで、クルーグマン
By Janet Allon comments_image 206 COMMENTS
Krugman on the Terrifying Reason Nations Keep Waging War
War is a huge money loser. So the motive is not greed.
But times have changed, Krugman points out. "If you’re a modern, wealthy nation, however, war ― even easy, victorious war ― doesn’t pay," he writes. "And this has been true for a long time."
勝つ戦争でも、戦争ではもうけはでない、と。
But Russian growth has been sputtering ― and you could argue that the Putin regime needed a distraction.
Similar arguments have been made about other wars that otherwise seem senseless, like Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982, which is often attributed to the then-ruling junta’s desire to distract the public from an economic debacle. (To be fair, some scholars are highly critical of this claim.)
And the fact is that nations almost always rally around their leaders in times of war, no matter how foolish the war or how awful the leaders. Argentina’s junta briefly became extremely popular during the Falklands war. For a time, the “war on terror” took President George W. Bush’s approval to dizzying heights, and Iraq probably won him the 2004 election. True to form, Mr. Putin’s approval ratings have soared since the Ukraine crisis began.
経済などで国がダメになって政権に批判が向けられたとき、戦争が起きると、政権に対する支持率が急上昇する、と。
問題を外に向けるために、戦争をやらかすのではないか、と。
