The survey by the Centre for Social Investment Studies (CENSIS) showed 39% of Italians aged between 18 and 45 would declare themselves as pacifist conscientious objectors, 19% would try to evade conscription another way, and 26% would prefer Italy to hire foreign mercenaries.
To “fight for your country” has been coopted so many times for wars in far away lands, ideological wars, wars of aggression, that the phrasing alone will make people assume they are being lied to and that somebody is fishing for dumb people to be sent into the meat grinder.
Maybe, but surveys like this have been held in several countries and most show a higher percentage of willingness…Seemingly, most respondents there didn’t have this association.
Idk about Italy specifically, or the difference in phrasing per study though.
Add. another factor could be the disinformation landscape. statista
China and Russia’s absence makes this meaningless.
What do you mean, you aren’t talking about the graph, right?
Do you see China and Russia’s ranking on the statista graph? I don’t.
Duh, ofcourse you dont. It’s a disinformation chart in free democratic countries. Also if you check the comments it was used as an argument concerning an European research.
When we talk about disinformation we commonly refer to Ruzz disinformation, and we mean their psyops hybrid disinformation campaigns in ** democratic** countries.
If you want to see a chart that might answer your question here is one
These charts are always suspect when they have a literal apartheid regime run by scores of howling fascists marked as democratic.
I guess as long as you accept their idea where democracy only applies to part of the population, then yes, part of the population can pretend they live in a democratic society. Nothing wrong with just not considering other people as people, no sir. Only freedom here.
(I don’t disagree that disinfo is usually discussed in the context of countries where people are more likely to affect policy)
The chart is from 2023
How does that change anything?
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