The willingness to fight until the end, whatever the cost, is not something you rate a priori.
replyThe 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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replyProbably have to be quite strong to live in Cuba in the first place.
replyYes, but if they can annihilate or get you to surrender from the beginning, there won't be such a generation.
replyWith incongruous premisses, one can conclude anything. How many cases of such a total annihilation/surrender goal have been attempted in human history, and how many actually achieved it?
reply>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.
replyYou... didn't learn history from before 1945 did you?
Guns, radio and widespread literacy change things. We're not talking about the harrying of the north here.
replyRussia pre-invasion of Ukraine probably said something very similar.
replyI don’t know if you are hiding a reasonable point underneath a misuse of the term “ideology”, but the idea that the fine differences between the Cuban and Vietnamese flavors of Marxist-Leninist ideology are critical differences on this point seems unconvincing without some argument clearly articulating the relevant ideological differences an how they produce the described divergence in capacity.
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