Mixed results at best. Violent solutions have to be overwhelmingly successful, incredibly thorough and over fast. Otherwise, the problem drags on in quagmire. Generations of hatred and endless, cyclical violence that solves nothing.

And arguably in the modern world, direct violence is incredibly inefficient. Propaganda and having a country tear itself apart from the inside is easier, cheaper and poses way less risk. It’s people’s willingness to jump to violent solutions that makes them malleable to a more stochastic approach and actually leaves them more vulnerable in the long run.

Also, violence against certain groups is plenty dramatic but is counter to the most pleasing narrative, so it also gets left on the cutting room floor. There’s an entire genre of post on the Internet of people being amazed at things they were never taught, that never got a movie or TV show made about it. Black Wall Street, The 1945 Firebombing of Tokyo, Battle of Blair Mountain, the Samar Campaign. And that’s just shit the Americans did.