• wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Favorite comment so far:

    The Houthis are an hereditary cult, why has no one ever attempted to just kill their religious leader and all of his male descendants (as I guess they won't accept females) to prevent heirs so as to cause a succession dispute and possibly disrupt the movement? Rather than restraining aid their don't care about because popular support is not material.

    when you have zero idea how martyrs work

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      They're so movie brained that they think killing the "big bad" just magically makes all the "henchman" vanish into the ether or something.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      20 years after Iraq and they still think they can solve all their problems in the middle east with "kill their leaders"

      • TheDialectic [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        To be fair the libs do mostly think what their leaders to tell them to think. It would work on them

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      "You see, if you just carry out a successful series of assassination schemes against the target and their legal heirs, then they will game over as they have no one to inherit their titles. I am a very serious person who did not learn everything about how states work by watching youtubers play CK2."

      smuglord speech-l

    • Rom [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Redditors only exposure to geopolitics is CKII

      • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        lol not even, European medieval history is far more about personal disputes about generations of inbreds than any grandiose scheming over territory and dynasties.