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As the War of 1812 showed "organized militias" kinda suck.
I fear it won't be organized militias like the US civil war. A force with armies, clear borders, is much easier to fight against.
It'll be more like the IRA. Lots of domestic terrorism, mostly acts committed by "lone wolfs".
And for what? Some orange turd? State's right to commit human rights violations?
It would absolutely not be like the US civil war, and I’m honestly not sure it’d be the troubles either. I don’t think they have the organization or discipline of the IRA (which itself had multiple iterations and factions).
I think we will see more Unite the Right / fascist marches and we will see terrorist attacks, but the “militias” aren’t going to be the ones who constitute an existential threat to the US. That’s going to be Trump 2 or whatever else they come up with.
I just envisioned a nightmare horror-comedy pairing Jan 6th with Weekend at Bernie's and feel kinda bad for laughing so hard? XD
"Yeah he's totally fine, aren't you, Mister Real-President??" (Tries to grab Trump 2's head to fake a nod but the toupet comes off)
🎵some things never change🎵
They knew this in 1776. The Swamp Fox and his militia were the only effective group, and they did it by being terrorists, but that's kind of the general idea these days.
I don't think anyone expects militias to actually hold a front anymore. At best they expect them to get rolled into the real military and go through retraining until most of them wash out because they weren't expecting to do anything but dress up and fantasize about killing brown people.
After watching all the Ukraine war footage videos. Most of the deaths come things you can't see. An AR is practically useless. War has changed again....
You bring up a very good point. I don't see the seceding Texans faring very well against the drone dropped grenades being used against Russia by the Ukraine. If it came down to it, the US militaries drones could handle the whole rebellion.
The US army doesn't really need to do anything. They can just deploy about 20 drone operators to quell the whole thing.
Even well-trained regular infantry aren't worth a whole lot when faced with artillery, tanks, planes and whatnot - things these idiots seem to be lacking in their closets full of peashooters.