[forapurpose]

What I mean is:

> [People in dictatorships] may be less vulnerable [than people in democracies] to attacks from outsiders, but they are much more vulnerable to attacks from their own government.

What the study is saying is:

> Our research implies that insider attacks from within American politics can be more pernicious than attacks from other countries.

That is, I'm comparing the vulnerability of people in democracies to people in dictatorships; the report is comparing the vulnerability of people in democracies to attack A or attack B. We're not disagreeing.

[hammock]

Yes. The point of agreement is that both people in dictatorships AND people in democracies are more vulnerable to insider attacks from their own governments, than to outsider attacks.

I was calling that out as .. interesting.