Istapali

[Svetlana]

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The National Liberation Front has been the most vocal resistance agaisnt the Nsanlosa occupation zone ever since the war broke out, and they've been the most deadly and effective resistance organization in the zone with their continued terror bombings and sabotage operations that have forces already thousands of Nsanlosan soldiers to be swapped due to severe PTSD, and it seems that the terror will now expand into Nsanlosa proper.

Following the outbreak of an open rebellion in Northern Nsanlosa, the NLF were able to take advantage of the moment to sneak hundreds of their operatives across the border using the mountainous regions alongside secretly recruiting thousands of Istapalians to their cause by tapping onto their nationalist hatred of the RNJ and current Nsanlosan occupation. What followed was a series of hundred of terrorist attacks targeting both civilian and military infrastructure across all of Nsanlosa's major cities with most of the efforts being concentrated in the capital where for last month the city has been rocked by attacks every day and at night it was even worse because carried out both political and military assassinations to weaken the country's institutions.

Writer and philosopher, Munopa Samkange summarized the Revolutionaries strategy in an excellent way by saying,

"Both the National Liberation Front and the National Liberation Army know that they cannot drive out Nsanlosa out of Istapali with conventual methods, those being a military offensive, since the National Reconciliation Junta still holds a tight grip over the areas surrounding the zone with the dacit support of Nsanlosa. So their only solution is to make the life of the average Nsanlosan hell, rock their zones of comfort and force them to confront their army's intrusion as nothing more than parasitical move that has backfired spectacularly.

We can already seeing the ripple waves of the NLF's actions in the outbreak of the rebellion in the north of the country, Nsanlosa was already an unstable country prone to rebellions, coups, and civil wars unlike Istapali which is more used to stable governance and democratic transitions, but both countries were held together by duck tape and prayers and a social contract that was being strained everyday. Istapali's social contract just broke down faster and in a more horrifying way while Nsanlosa's runs on Juntas and dictators with brief periods of democracy shattered by rebellions. 

It is also clear how it is necessary for the National Liberation Front to radicalize both the Istapalian and Nsanlosan societies, while they do have the support of the population in Nsanlosa most coward out from taking up arms against the RNJ and Ekina kingdom, and that's an issue that could kill off the NLF and the Revolutionaries if they do not address it. All sectors of society must take up arms, from the illiterate desertic nomads to the intellectual urbanites, from the widow with a family of 4 to the corporate president, all of these must have the courage to contact their underground NLF networks and help radicalize their surroundings as well."

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Written by @FreeIstapali (my bad it's January 5736 not 35, fyi)