Under some certain circumstances militant groups are generally interested in influencing the public opinion. This especially happens when a certain state is considered as an aggressor, because it tries to usurp their own territory. In these extremely difficult political situations, it is a pretty easy game for militant groups to manipulate the public opinion about even this state.
The first hypothesis assumes that, the presence of a foreign state, identified as an aggressor, makes it pretty easy for militant groups to spread their counter propaganda to the people.
For our second hypothesis we should take a look at the interstate political structure, which can also be considered as a relatively important key point for this whole discussion. To be more accurate, this expects that: the general political situation, such as a weak government or disagreements between the different parties within the national politics, favours the situation for the propaganda of militant groups of propaganda, and therefore also their ability to change the opinion about the foreign or rather the aggressor state.