We live in world where the vast majority of the voting public willingly imbibe brain-numbing bilge from whatever media channel they have at their finger tips and buy in to whatever social media message hits their retina and strikes a limbic accord with their materialistically driven self-obsessed, wish-I-was-a-celebrity, level one thought process.
There's no "narrative" for them on this or any other political judgement. Just a snap call, based on whatever random lever is pulling their chain at any given moment.
You want a majority for peace...show a kid wounded by friendly fire.
You want a a majority for war...show a kid wounded by a terrorist bomb.
That German Air Force chap said something about this at Nuremberg...come to think of it, there was a Blackadder sketch that summed it up pretty much as well.