Personal red line is an opsec type of thing, so forgive the evasiveness. I'm not convinced that this site isn't a honeypot. Point is that I have one. If I have one, then I should be able to make good on it. That's where local groups, trained, and squared away comes in.
Either you have a line or not. If you have one, how are you going to act on it? If you aren't, well, it's never going to be safe or convenient to resist. Until maybe you have nothing to lose, in which case it's probably too late.
Maybe your line needs to be in consultation with your people, provided they themselves are relatively squared away.
What the fight will look like will be dynamic. Cold war or hot war? Both alternating? What's the role? I don't get to decide. Except, sometimes maybe I do. It depends.
Doesn't change the need to be capable. If I'm not capable, then none of this shit is worth talking about because I'll have no choice but to be butt fucked.
edit: and look man I don't mean to say you need to be a guerrilla fighter. Even in open guerrilla war, only a small percentage of the resistance were actual trigger pullers, the vast majority provided support. Safe houses, food, supplies, medical, intelligence, clothing, transportation, propaganda, smuggling, sabotage, etc., etc., are the back bone. However, the way you build that support network is local with folks you can trust. And you can trust them because you are all for the same area and you can vet him and his people. It's easy to honeypot some rubes over the internet or with some new-to-town'er. Very hard to do it pretending to be a guy who grew up in the area, whose parents lived there also, who can be found in old copies of yearbooks, whose prom date is a bartender at the local watering hole, etc. Trust networks are paramount. Can't be effective without them.
Personal red line is an opsec type of thing, so forgive the evasiveness. I'm not convinced that this site isn't a honeypot. Point is that I have one. If I have one, then I should be able to make good on it. That's where local groups, trained, and squared away comes in.
Either you have a line or not. If you have one, how are you going to act on it? If you aren't, well, it's never going to be safe or convenient to resist. Until maybe you have nothing to lose, in which case it's probably too late.
Maybe your line needs to be in consultation with your people, provided they themselves are relatively squared away.
What the fight will look like will be dynamic. Cold war or hot war? Both alternating? What's the role? I don't get to decide. Except, sometimes maybe I do. It depends.
Doesn't change the need to be capable. If I'm not capable, then none of this shit is worth talking about because I'll have no choice but to be butt fucked.
edit: and look man I don't mean to say you need to be a guerrilla fighter. Even in open guerrilla war, only a small percentage of the resistance were actual trigger pullers, the vast majority provided support. Safe houses, food, supplies, medical, intelligence, clothing, transportation, propaganda, smuggling, sabotage, etc., etc., are the back bone. However, the way you build that support network is local with folks you can trust. And you can trust them because you are all for the same area and you can vet him and his people. It's easy to honeypot some rubes over the internet or with some new-to-town'er. Very hard to do it pretending to be a guy who grew up in the area, whose parents lived there also, who can be found in old copies of yearbooks, whose prom date is a bartender at the local watering hole, etc. Trust networks are paramount. Can't be effective without them.