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I think kidnapping for ransom is not a only a terrorism activity. Yes there are many cases of that but the majority will be related more with organized crime wh

I think kidnapping for ransom is not a only a terrorism activity. Yes there are many cases of that but the majority will be related more with organized crime which usually enrich in weak and unstable government. There is correlation between terrorists activity and unstable countries but that is not always cause and effect relation. I.e you will find high statistics of kidnapping for ransom in Latin amaerica and even Mexico due to organized crime networks. There are variety of ways kidnapping for ransom works (including cyper attacks here but also something like human trafficking activities...etc [1]) So there are many actions taken to address those. They are not just confined into the islamists category. [1] https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-threats/kidnap-and-extortion https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-thre...

mschuster91 2y ago
Yeah but the threshold for Western governments to engage in foreign, local stuff is very high. It's almost exclusively - some country or its exiled representatives directly ask for aid , e.g. against narco empires, but it's nowhere near a given that we react (e.g. Haiti, who has been begging for help for years now) - it threatens international shipping safety on popular trade routes, e.g. the Houthis in Yemen or Somalian pirates... and it's funny that the shipping co's complaining the loudest until military intervention comes are the ones who refuse to fly their ships under Western flags. - islamists threatening to spread their terrorism to other countries And that's it. Our general publics aren't very happy any more to spend trillions of dollars on oil grab operations or even on desperately needed support such as in Ukraine.