wonderful article from last month by the historian Bret Deveraux on nonviolent protest, with an appendix on the current US situation (44min read): https://acoup.blog/2026/02/13/collections-against-the-state-a-primer-on-terrorism-insurgency-and-protest/

Choice excerpts:
- "the sort of people who tend to come to run systems of discrimination predicated on violence tend to be emotionally and constitutionally incapable of following that sort of advice"
- "a non-violent protest is intentionally inviting state violence to fall on them because doing so dramatizes and exemplifies the injustice of that violence."

Read the rest of his blog for long posts about ancient warfare.

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