• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    They can’t organize because they hate each other just as much as they hate anyone else. They all have opinions on the way things should be, but no no two of them can decide what those things are. It would just descend into a bunch of factions all fighting each other until everyone else gets sick of them and just drops a bomb on them.

    They seem to think that their AKs are going to have any effect against a modern military. They wouldn’t even be presented with a target.

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      5 months ago

      They seem to think that their AKs are going to have any effect against a modern military.

      They think if they stand up with a bunch of AKs, the modern military will defect to their side.

      But US military propaganda is it’s own thing. It’s like assuming Yankees and Red Sox fans will both root for you because we all like baseball together.

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      5 months ago

      They seem to think that their AKs are going to have any effect against a modern military.

      Worked pretty well in Afghanistan

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        5 months ago

        The highway system in america was built by Eisenhower after he came back from Europe because he saw how awesome the Autobahn was for moving tanks across the country. That’s why they’re raised like that, to support heavy tanks and artillery.

        American military can project force within the United States in a way that it couldn’t within Afghanistan.

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            5 months ago

            It’s central to a guerrilla war. Force projection is how guerrillas win. If you’re just stuck up in the hills, sucking your own dicks, nobody cares that you’re in opposition.

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        5 months ago

        Give or take a few hundred thousand dead Afghanis, sure.

        The occupation was intolerable to generations of locals, but multiple generations died in order to force the occupation out. In the end, the US only left because they lost their resupply corridors through China, Russia, and Pakistan, thanks to exciting new wars breaking out on other sides of the globe.

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          5 months ago

          That’s the entire point of guerilla warfare, keep the pressure on until yot opponent loses their will or needs their troops elsewhere