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Originally Posted by Norman Ball
The walk-back would be a bitch as it involves Western de-funding of covert regime-change activities (France is up to its ears in this) and allowing for free elections.
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I think the situation is past the point where that would be much of a solution. I don't think this war is about the progression of the physical across a border as much as the progression of an idea crossing thresholds in individual psyches. The conversion point is not in combatant successfully arriving in the enemies territory but rather the conversion of the citizen into enemy, into self-sworn combatant in-situ.
I understand that it is becoming a bordered, physical division as well but how do you keep "them" out when "we" are the raw material of the "them". Maybe I miss your intention in this note. There is an appeal in this ideology that is beyond a simple reaction to hypocrisy or injustice or any action of the "Other". A subset of the population needs this, whatever it is. But it is not a subset that can be separated out by last name or last known residence, right? Or maybe not...