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[robkelk]

khagler wrote:Interesting. I wonder if this means that we can expect antiwar protestors to come back from wherever they've been hiding for the past eight years.

You know, fair point. Was it a case of the media not covering it as much (bias is a thing, no matter how much the 'Fake News' crap Trump throws around is BS), or was there a legitimate drop in the protest numbers? And if so, exactly when did the drop off happen? Was it a time/exhaustion issue, which given how long it went on is a plausible explanation. Was it tied to Obama's election and never regained steam, which is somewhat disappointing. Or was it around the time they announced the war in Iraq was over? Because in the last case, while it's usually waved off as peacekeeping, or supporting local governments, it's kinda hard not to justify it as a war.

There have been anti-war demonstrators in Ukraine since Crimea was annexed by Russia - I'm not aware of any demonstrators active on this side of the Atlantic at the same time.
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