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Which is why the US famously won the Vietnam war...
by text0404 9d ago
Which is why the US famously won the Vietnam war...
- WarmWash 9d agoIf that was the case the My Lai Massacre would be meaningless, because the entire war would have been that.
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- nulld3v 9d agoGenocide is usually not an efficient way to wage war. Even ancient armies usually did not slaughter entire towns, not because of ethics, but because fighting sucks and if you slaughter everybody you come across, nobody is going to surrender and every person you come across will fight you to the death. I say usually, because there are some exceptions and nukes are one of them, they make genocide a viable war strategy. But even nuking Vietnam would not have worked, cause you will simply get nuked back.
- WarmWash 8d agoIts more that you make it clear that you will kill anyone who doesn't surrender. Then most people end up surrendering. In modern militaries though, the expectation is that you will just leave civilians alone.
- surgical_fire 8d agoThere are some terrorist states that indiscriminately kill civilians though, such as Israel and the USA. The worst thing people would do is surrendering in those cases.
- twirldat 8d agoAs opposed to who? Iran fired missiles at Israeli (and Arab) civilian areas, so did Hezbollah and Hamas when they used to have that capability.
- surgical_fire 8d agoThat's precisely what I expected. That people would pop up defending US atrocities by equating them with the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah. And you know what? You're right. Those are all terrorist organizations.
- hndweller1337 7d ago>account created 1 hour ago Nice. https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-inf...
- jackie293746 9d agoThe entire war was that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange