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• johnisgood 10mo ago
  Yeah, but... the quoted phrase should not be taken literally as a statement about battlefield capability. It was a political struggle for legitimacy, not just territory, and the enemy did not have to win any battles, just avoid losing until the political will collapsed. The thing is, military power does not automatically translate to political success, and guerrilla fighters do not need to defeat tanks and jets, they just need to survive, persist, undermine legitimacy, and exhaust the opponent's political will. So, in this sense, the US was not beaten by farmers, it was beaten by a strategy that made military superiority irrelevant.
  • SpicyLemonZest 10mo ago
    Absolutely, and I think the domestic opposition strategy here makes military superiority irrelevant. The US government doesn't want to, and would collapse if they tried to, shoot everyone who says that Donald Trump is an illegitimate president and any prosecution he wants to succeed should fail.
    • johnisgood 10mo ago
      I agree.