To have a real “war effort,” in a democracy you need a population that strongly supports the war. Otherwise you get voted out and replaced with leaders who will

To have a real “war effort,” in a democracy you need a population that strongly supports the war. Otherwise you get voted out and replaced with leaders who will seek peace. You’d hope the outcome would be that unpopular wars are avoided, but it seems that the real outcome is only that big ones are. Our leaders have discovered that small wars that don’t require major sacrifices from the general population can be highly unpopular and it just doesn’t matter.