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Galanwetoday at 8:41 AM4 repliesview on HN

The willingness to fight until the end, whatever the cost, is not something you rate a priori.

The thing with war is that once you have it for a certain amount of time, you create a generation of people whose kids died, wife died, neighbors and family died, you have nothing to loose anymore.

There is a critical mass of casualties upon which you effectively create a population whose sole purpose, for generations, will be to resist and harm you, and that is not dependent on culture or whatever "tourism orientation" a country is labeled.


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stuaxotoday at 11:24 AM

Probably have to be quite strong to live in Cuba in the first place.

darkwatertoday at 8:46 AM

Yes, but if they can annihilate or get you to surrender from the beginning, there won't be such a generation.

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corimaithtoday at 10:15 AM

>The thing with war is that once you have it for a certain amount of time, you create a generation of people whose kids died, wife died, neighbors and family died, you have nothing to loose anymore.

You... didn't learn history from before 1945 did you?

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