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What would it take for the beginning of a civil war? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/AskUSA@discuss.online
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Listen, I know wars are horribly bad. I'm really sorry even asking such a question.

I'm Canadian. It seems that the fascists are set on military action against Greenland. I'm highly afraid that we're next. So I'm hoping the following happens in order:

  1. No wars. Somehow, legally the fascist executive is stopped. This unfortunately seems unlikely...
  2. They get bogged down in a war elsewhere. This prevents them from coming after Canada. I know this is me being extremely selfish, but whatever.
  3. A civil war begins. No one has to worry about being invaded.

So my question is related to the third possibility. What could start a civil war? Could an invasion of Greenland and the following economic collapse (hopefully caused by the EU dropping US treasuries) be the spark?

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago

The problem with a modern civil war in the USA is that there isn't a line in the sand that can be drawn for who is with who. Ideological differences are everywhere so there's no real way to establish a perimeter. California leans blue but if you look at the voting trends based on counties, the less populated counties trend red, the more populated one trend blue. Texas is red but a fair amount of their big cities are blue. It wouldn't be a civil war but serious civil unrest with shootings, bombings, and guerilla style attacks. This wouldn't be a stand up war, it'd be like Iraq in the early 2000's.

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