yes the US did all sorts of horrible things in these wars and I dont mean to downplay that, only put it in perspective those horrible things tended to be exceptions or edge cases rather than part of a systematic effort to kill everyone until resistance ended
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anyway while yes its true it would have been impossible for the US to adopt such measures in the current environment for a variety of reasons theres no reason to expect that constraint to hold forever in all cases
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so if your plan for revolution or resistance or whatever relies on guerilla warfare to bleed out an external force this might be worth considering
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i should also be clear i am not arguing /for/ a kill everyone strategy. i think it is abominable. but many disagree and they might be able to enact their preferences sooner or later
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to be extremely extremely clear this is something I hope im wrong about but it might be worth considering what the likelihood of it not being wrong is if this is something important to you idk glhf
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political scientist who specialized in a related field hmm also note "kill everyone" only gets easier with certain tech advances I am reluctant to name but you can probably easily imaginehttps://twitter.com/knrd_z/status/1420567263388778500?s=19 …
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good read on authoritarian counterinsurgency methodshttps://twitter.com/Joe_Adorno3/status/1420569862947184644?s=19 …
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Uh Vietnam basically was
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did we nuke hanoi
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