[Zhang Fei]

[They have a weak military which the insurgents massacre, unless we help the government forces.]

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The regime is plenty strong for scorched earth tactics. They have the literal ability to exterminate everyone in the areas where the rebels operate. This kind of thing is pretty standard operating procedure in that region, because counter-insurgencies are expensive, whereas extermination is a one-time expense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366#Massacres

And it’s not something new. It’s how insurgencies have been quashed on the cheap pretty much since anyone started keeping records, and probably before then. Alexander did kill every man in Persepolis, the Persian capital.

https://www.livius.org/sources/content/diodorus/alexander-sacks-persepolis/

Decades before the NSDAP won power, the Kaiser did something similar in what is now Namibia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide

[Williams]

You’re talking generalized nonsense. The Philippines has never shown the ability to successfully go “scorched earth” on the insurgents.

Muslims have control of Southern islands and the government has no ability to wipe them out. They usually call on us for help but even so they make marginal progress.