• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims

    This would be the opposite of a terrorist attack.

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        4 months ago

        They’re in the armed fighting group. Literally the military. Of course they are combatants. This doesn’t require being in direct combat.

        Ukraine bombs Russian Drone factories. One could say nobody was a combatant. American Drone operators are bombing people half the world away from an airbase in Texas. One could say nobody was a combatant.

        As long as they’re registered and active in the armed military group, actively working with the military that is in conflict with the group attacking them, and not having surrendered, they’re combatants. They can surrender any time such as… right now! And quit the military right now!

        Attacking military bases only, and not civilian areas, is super based.

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          4 months ago

          Were the workers in the drone factory combatants, because by your definition technically they were.

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            4 months ago

            Yes… Yes they were. That’s the point. At least if they willingly joined that factory and weren’t forced to do it.