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I wonder if this perspective is colored by the American Civil War experience. Run-of-the-mill civil war has nothing to do with traditional military objectives.
by fatherzine 4y ago
I wonder if this perspective is colored by the American Civil War experience. Run-of-the-mill civil war has nothing to do with traditional military objectives. Rather, it is a messy business where various factions viciously fight over turf, often times eliminating populations with (perceived) allegiances to other faction(s) from the territory they control. See Lebanon, Yugoslavia, ISIS, etc.
- lazide 4y agoMy perspective is more based on what faction would fight over someone else’s turf here? No one seems interested, in a physical space way, at least so far. Would the feds fight Texas over texas? Doesn’t seem like it. Would texas go to the Feds, or New York, or whatever, to fight to take it? Doesn’t seem like it. Seems more like everyone wants to lob angry messages at each other from over the border.
- fatherzine 4y agoThe classics: ethnic rifts, religious rifts, ideological rifts. A good old fashioned economic shock is all it takes.
- lazide 4y agoTypically you’d need opposing groups to be in a shared physical space without enough room to stay away from each other comfortably though. Cities, for sure, and there were low level versions of this kind of unrest, though nothing that got too widespread. But where would the ‘civil war’ happen in this scenario now? Online? If so, hard to cause much actual blood here.