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Hardest pill to swallow: that includes “lesser of two evils”.
Fascists deserve to be shot and killed
Big hill to climb after giving them a military and government, but agreed.
Myanmar’s military regime had the best grip possible on the armed forces by basically making a separate caste to avoid having the soldiers having second thoughts about shooting at their own families.
People tend to ignore that civil war, but it’s going to be studied for centuries because of all the unique tactics that have been deployed by all sides.
like what
Tbh there’s far more happening there than I actually understand, but I know that military advisors around the world are already studying and watching the war. Here’s a pretty decent article on it
Military gets overhyped. The U.S. Armed Forces have not successfully managed to root out a guerilla force ever. It’s why they lost in Vietnam and why they keep losing in the Middle East. To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure if any modern military is actually equipped to handle a mobilized, armed revolution from their own civilians.
War overseas isn’t same as insurgency at home.
Also, Americans have been living pretty comfortable lives compared to tough mofos in Vietnam and Afghanistan where poverty and instability is/was the norm. Few weeks of hardships and the insurgency in US will die out.
It’s why they lost in Vietnam
I think the main reason is that the war lost popular support back home.
I’d argue that if the Army was more effective at fighting againt guerillas, they’d have achieved victory before popular support waned.
Yeah. what was that war about again? Preventing communism?
Maintaining French colonial holdings.
Big problem is, if you just wait for them to be toppled, you’ll just be subjugated by the one doing the toppling.
You won’t solve the overall problems with big violent revolutions, you get it by making the oligarchs irrelevant.
Same principle as fediverse. Decentralized society of active participants, not consumers. Everyone’s the master, or some are masters and many are slaves.
