Sunk cost fallacy - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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This feels relevant.

And Escalation of Commitment: "a human behaviour pattern in which an individual or group facing increasingly negative outcomes from a decision, action, or investment nevertheless continue the behaviour instead of altering course. The actor maintains behaviours that are irrational, but align with previous decisions and actions."

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[-] lauha@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Russia is going really hard on this with Ukraine war

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes. And I think it's even worse than that. The war is the one thing left cementing Putin's power. Once he stops, there's nothing left except a broken country with a wrecked economy. So I think at this point he couldn't cut his losses, even if the sunk cost fallacy weren't a thing. And the population doesn't really have any choice whether they want to pay for some hypothetical victory, because it's a dictatorship.

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