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by einpoklum 1620 days ago
I am reminded of this story:

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/04/08/less-ameri...

(also here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/0...

)

Most people answering a 2014 poll (hopefully uniformly sampled) could not locate Ukraine on a map of the world, with many placing it in Africa, East Asia, Greenland or even the US; but the more interesting part was that the farther from its actual location was people's guess, the more they were supportive of US military intervention in Ukraine.