US citizens more hawkish on the Ukraine situation the least likely to locate it

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A recent poll concerning the ongoing trouble in Ukraine found that only roughly one in six Americans know where the country is geographically located— many believe it is located somewhere in Europe or Asia and some misplaced the nation by 1,800 miles. What’s more disturbing than the respondents’ lacking geography skills, however, is that those who most inaccurately identified Ukraine were also the most likely to support U.S. military intervention in the nation.

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Who Could Locate Ukraine?:

27 percent of 18-24 year olds
14 percent of 65+ year-olds
20 percent of men
13 percent of women
16.1 percent of people from military households
16 percent of people from non-military households
29 percent of independents
14 percent of Democrats
15 percent of Republicans
21 percent of college graduates
13 percent of people without a college degree
The researchers discovered that 45 percent of Americans supported diplomatic pressure such as a U.S. boycott of the G8 Summit in response to the Ukrainian crises, and just 13 percent supported military intervention.
Among the 13 percent with hawkish responses, however, the researchers recognized an unsettling trend.
They relayed: “Even controlling for a series of demographic characteristics and participants’ general foreign policy attitudes, we found that the less accurate our participants were, the more they wanted the U.S. to use force,

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