The Guardian
13 min ·


"It is difficult to see how the west can counter this escalating challenge. The biggest mistake would be to underestimate Isis and to imagine it can be bombed out of existence. Now that it is losing its geographical heartland, it will increasingly become an ideological state intent on destruction, fuelled by implacable hatred and vengeance, and assisted by anyone it can enlist or influence, however indirectly, to carry out acts of violence it can then claim."



Don’t underestimate Islamic State. More atrocities are on their way
The attacks in Nice and Bavaria show that as the organisation loses territory, it is becoming an ideological state inciting anyone it can influence to acts of violence
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