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well..by your logics the US founding fathers should just gave up 'cause at that time, the British Empire is stronger than whatever two-bits army that the foundi

• analog31 6y ago
  In my view, that's survivor bias. I think that an insurrection can render a country or region un-governable, even with a numerical disadvantage. But it can't necessarily establish a new government, either a good one or a bad one. The two-bits army was ideologically and organizationally aligned with an already functioning colonial government. But that's survivor bias too. I don't know if there are any reliable rules for the long term outcome of a successful insurrection. The British didn't need to be defeated, they only needed to realize that they could no longer govern the colonies.