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The main reason why guerillas kidnap EU citizens is that the US have a policy of not paying ransom. Which is game-theoretically smart, but gets really bad PR the first few times, and if I knew the people sacrificed the first few times, I might have a different opinion, too.

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> I might have a different opinion, too.

That also encourages everyone else to go kidnap your citizens knowing you're a free walking ransome bag waiting to be seized, thereby making the problem worse and increasing the chances that you'd be in such a position.

Obviously. But it gets a few people killed at first.

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