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A terrorist group doesn't stop being a terrorist group because they control some territory. Their lack of state apparatus in the areas they controlled prevents
by GauntletWizard 5y ago
A terrorist group doesn't stop being a terrorist group because they control some territory. Their lack of state apparatus in the areas they controlled prevents them from being called a state, and the continued use of terror tactics like public beheadings and rapes. Maintaining the objectives they had already achieved is still political.
- vmception 5y agoThere are regimes we respect in that region that do public beheadings, as detailed in law. Like I said, once you have sovereign immunity the standard for criticism or even airtime changes. Practically dissipates from the collective conscious, aside from a footnote in an obscure right’s group annual report.