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A civil war doesn't mean that you have troops shooting each other in the streets of every city. It means that there are regions where the government can't proj

A civil war doesn't mean that you have troops shooting each other in the streets of every city. It means that there are regions where the government can't project authority. Ukraine before the Russian invasion was a perfect example. You could walk around Kiev without a care in the world, 500km to the east you had death squads trying to suppress an honest to god soviet insurgency.

immibis 3y ago
Then aren't they just the government?
- pixl97 3y ago
  It depends if you consider a group not based on the rule of law a government.
  - lispisok 3y ago
    Where does the rule of law come from?
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    - mlinhares 3y ago
      From the (almost) monopoly on violence.
  - immibis 3y ago
    Are the current governments in the USA and Germany governments?
brabel 3y ago
> 500km to the east you had death squads trying to suppress an honest to god soviet insurgency. Wasn't the Maidan Revolution in 2014 also an "insurgency" against the government right in the center of Kiev?