I think they know. I also think they believe they can handle the problem using industrialized methods.
I agree. I think they know, and I think they drove it here on purpose. But it is in their interest to have plausible deniability to the accusation that the politicians have deliberately destabilized things, so “industrialized methods” can be justified.
I think they know. I also think they believe they can handle the problem using industrialized methods.
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They figure they can pick up the phone and call the police or the military for protection. Then I think of the police officers executed in Dallas, and the military which is now forced to do sex change operations.
Might work in China or Argentina, but we’re armed.
“..using industrialized methods...”
So they’d like to believe.