This is a defense that weakens the defender. If it’s is true what you say the fact that so many of the population are primed to rebel mean the unrest already e

This is a defense that weakens the defender. If it’s is true what you say the fact that so many of the population are primed to rebel mean the unrest already existed and would have been unleashed with another trigger. It is not the truth about the trigger that matters here but the truth about the situation which has prepared the unrest.