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Everything is Victory

The biggest advantage of jihadists is their 'Everything is Victory' element

It tends to assess military developments according to the following criteria:
1. If I kill you, I win.
2. If you kill me, I am a martyr. I win big.
3. There are no innocents in the land of my enemy. If I kill infants, the elderly, pregnant women, even on purpose, I win.
4. When my enemy kills innocent civilians in error, even his own allies condemn him for brutality. I win.

I guess this is the element that outrages the US and Israel, and even us: knowing that in any way we cannot win from that idea.

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