Would you be willing to fight for [your country] in case of war?

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  2. Ones who fighting with overpopulation for sure considering ‘red’ as someone they would be able to get rid using propaganda in specific way.

    It honestly the bad times where any patriotic feeling could be used to get rid of you.

  3. Western EU is sort of far away from most wars so they don’t have to worry I guess.

  4. The no from east eu is because of corruption, you’d be sent to fight in the frontline with questionable equipment while the kids of local barons enjoy vacations in exotic places.

  6. Unless I missed it, there is no info on the age distribution of the participants. If they asked people 60 and over, the results would be skewed.

  7. i think that for a lot of people that is a loaded phrase a lot of young people grew up during the war on terror, a much better question to ask would be if your country was being invaded would you be willing to help defend it

  10. The portion of the population that actively responds that they want to be goaded into fighting says a lot about a country, but it doesn’t say anything meaningful about how legitimately prepared they are to survive an actual war of aggression.

    Very interesting. Very misleading too, but very interesting all the same.

  11. I find the question a bit “vague” because it depends.

    1 – to defend my country if attacked YES

    2 – to defend another European country if attacked (in the EU or not) YES

    3 – to fight in another country because my gouvernement decided so NO (unless some VERY good, not economical reasons)

    4 – to fight for my country because it decided to attack another country NO.

  12. I am German and would never go to war for my country!

  13. These infographics if aiming to be accurate need to separate those willing to fight at home or abroad.

    I would never fight abroad for anyone, (morals aside) especially now robotics and drones mean that humans (not specialised troops) are just a cheaper form of front line fodder than modern military equipment.

    I would however fight domestically to defend my home.

  14. So most EU residents would not fight if Russia attacked an EU member. But this sub thinks the EU is a military powerhouse that can replace NATO

  15. Not surprised about India. Military people there get an extremely generous pension.

  16. It really depends on the war.

    Yes I would be willing if there was an existential threat of my country being invaded.

    But I would never fight if we were invading some poor region thousands of kilometres from here.

    Both fall within the question.

    So it really reflects what war people think when asked. Eastern Europe is probably gonna think of a Russian invasion, that is less likely so in Western Europe who are probably more likely to think of the recent wars of playing world police with the US.

  17. Funny they put the logical answer, No, in red. Could it be on purpose ?

    Let’s hope for all of us the no is gaining numbers with time passing by.

    You would think people réalisés by now, but I guess history repeats itself still.

  18. It almost seems like the better things are in a country, the less people are willing to defend it

  20. Would have been pretty damn high here in Croatia some 10-15 years ago, but it’s changing a lot due to circumstances. Like, you can find cheaper shit in stores in Germany or Netherlands or whatever, yet our paychecks remain low. People start moving out of the country, scummy businesses refuse to pay our workers properly, so they refuse to work… what do they do? Bitch and whine how nobody wants to work and get the government to cut quotas for foreign workers. Now those shitty ass businesses have their very own slave labor for a pay no self respecting Croat would work for. Would I fight for such a country? A country that would rather replace me than pay me well? Don’t get me wrong, I love my nation, my culture, etc, but fuck no! The government has to earn our wilingness to fight for them. Let those business owners fight for them, since they’re the only ones that matter apparently.

  22. *’for your country’*

    Africa. Middle East. Latin America. East Asia. West Asia.

    I get the allure of averaging, but with dozens of countries in the mix that represent vastly different cultures and attitudes (essentially Middle Eastern Egypt vs. South Africa, Argentina vs. Colombia, Israel vs. Afghanistan) the results as represented in the map are pretty useless.

  23. i’ll be on the reddit front lines shitposting for freedom!

  24. Fuck that. I’m not fighting for any flag 🤷‍♂️

  25. Dying to do the bidding of privileged rich people who will safely be chilling in their mansion is insanity.

    There are some cases where the answer could be yes such as straight up invasion of an enemy’s military force but that’s it.

  27. Russian here.

    It reminds me of one of the pranks one of the opposition channels did in Moscow, pretending to be a pro-Kremlin YouTuber.

    “So, if you were called to fight in the special military operation, would you do it?”
    “Of course I would, I will fight for Russia, Nazis in Ukriane, bla bla bla”
    “Great, please write your passport details here, I’ll pass it to the military commission and they will recruit you as soon as possible”

    *person silently walks away in a hurry”

  28. I hate it when this question is asked because it is flowed by default.

    It should be something like “would you fight to defend your way of life / your lifestyle / your quality of life?

    I’m thinking this because people may not feel patriotic to their country as such but they may be appreciative of their quality of life (generally speaking) and may not want it to be taken away should their country be taken over by invaders.

    Ukraine being an example. Ukrainians want to join western work and wish better quality of life for themselves than they had under Russian influence so they fight for this desire to come true. If Russians take over then that’s it, poverty and lack of personal freedoms like in the USSR.

  29. The UK one is because we just know that if there were a war it’s almost a certainty that some red faced Nigel Farage type is responsible for it. Likely after ensuring his own kids don’t have to fight.

  30. I’m naturalized French and middle aged, but I’d like to think I’d fight for my country as long as it was to defeat fascism.

  31. hmm do you think governments around the world will give you a choice?

  32. They put West Asia in the South East? And then there’s Middle East as well?

    Who made this map? It’s much better to call the middle east as West Asia because that’s the correct term. The map also has Africa as a whole. This is a very bad map.

  33. It depends what fight for means – I would be be willing to defend in the event of an invasion, but I’m not going to go and fight on foreign soil

  34. I think that’s a bad question that’s yielding bad and misleading results.

    The question I see and I think many others see is: [For absolutely any cause or reason], would you be willing to fight for your country in case of war?

    I think most people will not say they’d be willing to go to war if they feel it’s an unjust reason.

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    Here’s an example of the same question in a different scenario: Would you be willing to fight a person on the street in case of being told to by someone?

  35. 48% “I prefer not to speak, if I speak, I am in big trouble”?

  36. Uhh West Asia and the Middle East are basically the same. I think they meant South Asia?

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