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Ah, I think I understand. We're in agreement on most points it seems. It just sounds like when I used the word "country" to refer to a large group of innocent people, you thought I was instead referring to a country's guilty government. That makes sense, since in my initial comment I used the word "country" when I was talking about forcing it to do what we want. In that instance I was referring to the governments - objectively evil people who deserve to be removed by any means necessary if uncompliant with the needs of the people. After that I shifted to referring to countries as a general group of people residing in any given country who would join a movement against their government. Sorry for the confusion.

I certainly never meant to infer that I thought any country was defined by their own corrupt government - it was always my goal to affirm that the people of all countries more alike to one another than they are different, and they are all under the thumb of their respective governments, corralled into borders to keep them segregated from one another. It sounds like you thought I was trying to say people should stay segregated by country when fighting, but I was just trying to say that people from the same country are often, not always, closer together and more easily able to help one another during an uprising than people in another country who are often, but not always, farther away.

There are, of course, scenarios where people are closer to others from another country than people from their own, and in those cases they should obviously join with those who they are close to. Whoever it is that you can group up with is who you should group up with, but obviously the harder it is for you to physically meet up, the less help you will be able to give one another. The important thing is that they're close, so that they can offer physical assistance at a moment's notice in the event of a raid or something.

If someone can make the trip from another area, that's great, but the primary source of support must be local for a movement to succeed. I certainly don't have anything against people from London, they just can't do much to help a movement currently located in California. If we're going to fight something as powerful and well-armed as a government, we won't be able to cherry-pick our support. I might get along better with Canadians than my own neighbors, but I can't rely on Canadians for a fight in my home town - I need the support of my neighbors who are here to fight right now. We need every able-bodied person we can get who can physically be there for us. If people from another geographic area want to come over to help, that's awesome, but we'll need the local people to join in too if we want to have the numbers necessary to put up a good fight.