People really don't seem to understand that militaries are usually designed to fight other militaries, who wear uniforms, drive AFVs and fly military aircraft unavailable to civilians. If you see a chinese tank driving down the road, it's not a huge mystery who it belongs to.
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Folks, this is actually by design! States fight other states and both agree beforehand to wear uniforms and respect certain rules of warfare and not shoot at the paratroopers before they land, and so on. Sometimes those rules are broken but generally they work for both sides.
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I see people saying idiotic crap like "man if the US was just fighting its own population it wouldn't need restrictive Rules of Engagement like it was under in Iraq", and it's like, man, what the *fuck* are you smoking?
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How in God's name and all that is holy do people draw the conclusion that while you can't just massacre civilians in Afghanistan without people getting mad at you, it's safe to massacre civilians in the areas where the US army draws its recruits from? How does that make sense!?
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USG's rules of engagement in Afghanistan for its barely trusted military weren't there to avoid upsetting Afghans - they were there to hamstring the military. Their next step is to conduct loyalty purges (ongoing) - that's the real constraint.
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