Perhaps cut to the chase: “extremists” is a euphemism even. We are talking about a long history of using ideologically and religious fuelled death squads to ruin countries. From Ikraine post 2014 to Syria to Palestine, to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Rwanda, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia and so on.
Perhaps cut to the chase: “extremists” is a euphemism even. We are talking about a long history of using ideologically and religious fuelled death squads to ruin countries. From Ikraine post 2014 to Syria to Palestine, to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Rwanda, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia and so on.
Examples:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/06/el-salvador-iraq-police-squads-washington
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/mar/06/james-steele-america-iraq-video
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/03/06/roger-winter-was-a-shadowy-figure-at-the-heart-of-the-1994-rwandan-genocide/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/terrorism-with-a-human-face-the-history-of-americas-death-squads/5317564
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opinion/sunday/united-states-cold-war.html