#insurgency — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #insurgency, aggregated by home.social.
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Watching, Waiting: How the War on #Iran Is Reshaping the #Baloch #Insurgency
https://www.thelevantfiles.org/2026/05/watching-waiting-how-war-on-iran-is.html
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So freaking depressing
Reuters:
Trump-endorsed POS #KenPaxton topples #JohnCornyn in #TexasCNN:
Known #corrupt #Texas AG Ken Paxton will defeat Sen John Cornyn in the state's #Republican runoff for #SenateWP:
Sen. John Cornyn loses primary challenge in Republican runoff in Texas, ending a bitter Senate race driven by a #MAGA #insurgency -
Andrewism: *How To Resist An Alien Invasion*
"When an occupying authority appears to outman and outgun all resistance, what methods might one employ to resist such an “alien” invasion?"
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Ja, diese Befürchtung teile ich. Wenn es zu bewaffnetem Widerstand gegen #ICE & Co. kommt, wird #Trump dies als einen "Aufstand" - eine #Insurgency - bezeichnen & nationale Truppen dagegen einzusetzen versuchen.
Dass das Weiße Haus (!) bereits jetzt rassistisch verfälschte #KI - Fotos versendet, lässt das Schlimmste befürchten...
#Fossilismus #Thymokratie #USA https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/usa/id_101106668/ki-manipulation-und-einschuechterung-trump-opfer-ueber-us-faschismus-.html
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Counterinsurgency for Politicians
I recently listened to a talk on fighting insurgencies and/or terrorism (Extremists in Uniform, on Preet Barara’s podcast) and thought how very relevant it was to recent Canadian and American politics.
Phillip Mudd was talking about terrorism as an infectious idea, and split the counterinsurgency problem into two parts.
The first is in combat. There, you defeat the leaders.
But the second is everywhere there is recruiting going on. That’s partly happening where your war was, but it also could be Isis recruiting on-line in Canada and the US.
The problem is all the followers.
Unless you want the insurgency to pop right back up again, you need to talk to the former followers and their supporters. They need to know that God doesn’t want them to kill all the evil Canadians. But to do that, you actually need to talk to them and find out what started the war.
No-one starts a war without a reason. The leaders puff up the reason into a rage, but the problem doesn’t go away when the leaders lose an election.
If you’re honest and visibly work to fix the problem, there won’t be a need for an insurgency, and over time the number of terrorists will fall to ones and twos. It won’t fall to zero, but you’ll be dealing with lone wolves, not packs.
How does this apply to Canada?
We have two political parties that used to overlap. We had left-center and right-center parties, and they used to debate loudly and peacefully. We used to stage marches and picket lines, but good leaders were recognized by the opposing party.
For example, the well-known Conservative Hugh Segal was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2005 by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Twenty years later, it looks like the US. The parties hate each other, try to cause parliament (not just their opponents) to fail, and describe each other as evil and depraved. And their supporters smuggle weapons to support a picket line at the US border.
Congratulations, you have a two-part insurgency
If you really want to stop the “war”, you need to do exactly what you do in a real war.
- First you “kill” the leaders. A lost election or two will suffice.
- Then you need to talk to the followers. They wouldn’t start a war for no reason, even a shouting war. Canadians are too polite for that.
You need to find and fix the things that make them think you’re evil. Fortunately, God isn’t involved, just lots of rage, so it’s possible to have a discussion about what caused the war. Probably a “spirited” discussion, but a discussion.
But if each party looks to see what’s harming the supporters of the other party and works to fix them, you eventually get peace, order and better government.
As Bill Davis famously said, “bland works”. Not creating opportunities for a charismatic leader to try and whip their followers to a rage is how he was successful.
–dave
[Full disclosure: Hugh Segal got me started in politics: I was a volunteer in his bid to lead the Conservative party. I’m a Liberal]
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Iranian government has purchased at least 20 new armored vehicles to be used primarily in the south eastern province of Sistan and Balichestan.
The vehicles will be used by the Genderm/Border guards and IRGC in order to limit the mounting casualties by the Baluch separatists insurgents.
#Iran #Military #Baluchestan #IRGC #Pakistan #Insurgency #Russia
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Telling the guys & girls who REALLY fought ACTUAL insurgencies that an egg throwing #AntiFa is a violent "#insurgency" & the #Democrats are "the enemy from within" plus that both are "just as dangerous as a foreign army" .. yea that's gonna fly.
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@ai6yr The #squirrel #insurgency has been on going for at least a decade. I remember this terrifying map of squirrel attacks on the U.S. power grid.
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The U.S. Threat Looming Over Canada by Stephen Marche
The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.
“All of these cute, latte-drinking TikToker students,” she said. “You look at them and you don’t see insurgents. But if you kill their moms, the Geneva Convention will not save you.”
