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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
There is a type of warfare that you can call “postcolonial war” that remains the dominant mode of fighting a more powerful enemy in much of the world. During the colonial period, armed movements were much weaker than the imperial powers they were facing off against. They had two advantages however: demography, and time. Due to the power differential these groups would try to avoid direct confrontation with their adversaries. Instead, they would engage in low-level antagonism over a very long period aimed at making life uncomfortable for the occupier. At the same time they’d keep growing their numerical advantage over decades. The belief was that eventually the foreigners would get exhausted and despair of the challenge of living as a ruling minority in a distant land. This is what the FLN did in Algeria, the Vietcong did in Vietnam, and what the Taliban recently did in Afghanistan. It is a style of fighting that inevitably means great losses, but remains widely endorsed around much of the world.
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Jack
@jackten
I can't help but think that would be the end result of the Russian Ukraine war if Russia ever actually managed to get the upper hand in the current conflict. It makes the whole thing seem like such a massive blunder on Russia's part. Like how could Putin ever have thought this was a good idea
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
You nailed it. Even if they win they’ll be governing a hostile populace
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