Let me count the ways:
- powerful people can terrorize populations to control them through fear (rather than earning respect)
- greedy people can destroy societies, then economically exploit the populations as they rebuild the societies they destroyed (eg: Halliburton, KBR, Parsons, etc)
- greedy people can make money selling weapons (arms industry) and related technologies and support (list of defense contractors)
- power-hungry people can purchase democratic governments from the citizens with the wealth from their wars (see military-industrial complex, iron triangle, lobbying in the US, and dark money); hence my reference to US of Merca (military expenditures and per capita)
- greedy people can gain access to and control of other people's resources (multinational corporations such as East India Company, United Fruit Company, Big Oil, etc; see largest)
- Men suffering from testosterone poisoning can hunt the most dangerous game, murdering without any negative social or legal ramifications (also private military companies like
BlackwaterAcademi, etc)
So, absolutely nothing!
Well, there's local populations and noble neighbors defending against all of the above when called upon. So there is something. That includes American Minutemen, Great Plains warriors, American Indian Movement (AIM), Black Panthers, Young Lords, Viet Cong, Palestine Liberation Organization, Sandinista National Liberation Front, Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, Kurdistan Worker's Party, and numerous other resistance fighters throughout the world. That does not include the United States Department of War Defense (war crimes and abuses), Central Intelligence Agency (abuses and controversies), Israel (war crimes and abuses), Mossad (operations and assassinations), or NATO.
When faced against a greater oppressive force, weaker oppressed forces resort to asymmetric tactics. See Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Empire. The decentralized and organic nature of insurgents make them quick, nimble, and enduring; empires are technologically superior but bureaucratically lumbering and stupid colonizers. It is like the iconic gladiator match-up, one with trident and net versus the other with sword and shield. Illegal occupiers almost always label freedom fighters as the terrorists, a cruel twist of irony.
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