re: #239 Dark_Falcon

As I’ve noted before that as a general rule insurgents only succeed if the people they are fighting against have a place to run to. Eventually, if the insurgents keep at it the occupiers will say, “Fuck it! This isn’t worth the blood or money.” and go home. See Vietnam, Afghanistan against both the Soviet Union and the U.S., and Iraq.

If the insurgents are fighting against the local authorities they usually lose as the local authorities have no place to run to. They win or they die. I know of only three places where insurgents won over the rulers and in each case the rulers were exceptionally incompetent. Those places were China, Cuba and Nicaragua.

Also overlooked by the wingnuts are the casualties suffered. It’s between ten and fifty people for every person serving the occupiers/ local authorities. Most of those are civilians caught in the crossfire.

The utter ignorance of the wingnuts when it comes to warfare is both horrifying and a little reassuring. The former emotion because they are too likely to start something. The latter because they will probably get their asses handed to them in jig time.