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Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Europe from 1970 to 2017
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Northern Ireland: "Welcome to hell, lads!"
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...i am just asking questions, but in these places, were the intended consequences reached?..I truly do not wish to be provocative, but because there are so few examples, did they achieve their said goals?..were the goals incremental through extraordinairy circumstance, or do these same conditions exist in places where this particular "terrorism" was invoke?..
god that's stupid, sorry
The Basque Country still belongs to Spain and Northern Ireland still belongs to the UK, so... no, I guess?
I don't know enough about that cluster in the Balkans to even speculate on it.
Asking if terrorism works isn't a stupid question. It's a very impolite question (from the perspective of people in power), and maybe even heartless, but not stupid.
For the Northern Ireland one it's a particularly messy question to answer because the attacks were not all working towards the same goal. Pro-UK paramilitaries were a huge part of the Troubles, it wasn't just pro-independence paramilitaries vs the British army
...i really was just asking, thank you for the honest answer...
The Good Friday agreement was signed regarding Northern Ireland, so they definitely got something for their efforts.
It's not stupid at all. many do not reach their ultimate goal, except the revenge type attacks. But sometimes their deeds lead to unreasonably heightened security measures that negatively impact everyone in the region.
Now conspiracy theorists sometimes state that some attacks may be false flag to get those uncomfortable security measures in place. But I think it's rather politicians using the incident to further unpopular measures and please the ppl who bribed them.