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Terrorism very much does work. The Basque and the Northern Irish terrorists / freedom fighters have gotten a so many of their demands for autonomy met that they
by pepperoni_pizza 4mo ago
Terrorism very much does work. The Basque and the Northern Irish terrorists / freedom fighters have gotten a so many of their demands for autonomy met that they disbanded (in one case formally, in the other almost) because they weren't needed anymore. Taliban also got the US out from Afghanistan pretty handily with mostly terrorism.
- some_random 4mo agoThe Taliban absolutely did not terrorism the US out of Afghanistan haha
- pepperoni_pizza 4mo agoWhy do you think they left, then?
- s1artibartfast 4mo agoBecause it was expensive and the local population did not care for the Kabul government we were protecting. It is hard to prop an unpopular government in a country of 40 million. The US military was averaging only 12 deaths in the years before withdraw. Most of what the taliban was doing is closer to asymmetric warfare than terrorism.
- calgoo 4mo agoWhen the population was complaining that they had to go to the Taliban for help because the Americans could do nothing to help them when the local military was corrupt and abused the people.
- wqaatwt 4mo ago> The Basque and the Northern Irish terrorists / freedom fighters have gotten a so many of their demands for autonomy met that they disbanded That’s certainly not how it works. They just became highly unpopular amongst the populations they were trying to liberate (which generally preferred more peaceful solutions) and lost their support base and had to disband.