They can change your point of view to where you won’t listen to anyone else and it can hurt you in the long run by just trying to do good.
They rose due to nationalism. Germans wanted revenge for WW1 where they thought they were punished too harshly, while Japan deemed that it was a great nation and that it should enter the continent through China. Germans fell because they became too spread out and couldn't fight the war an all fronts, while the Japanese lost it because they enraged the US who nuked them.
I believe the answer is <span>External Locus control.
People with </span><span>External Locus control tend to believe that the success and failure that happen in their life is the result of outside influences and they can't do anything to influence it.
In general, these people tend to make various excuses for their failure without acknowledging their mistake that could contribute to that failure.</span>