Thanks for this! On my blog I've written on similar themes. Something that I think is also important in thinking about the possibility of a new civil war in the USA is foreign relationships. After all, we can thank French intervention for the fact that the Colonies beat the British. Likewise we can thank the lack of European intervention for the reason that Grant could finally crush Lee's army at Appomattox.
In case of a new civil war in the United States I can only imagine that hostile foreign powers would fund the non white ethnic militias. The reason for this belief concerns the brass tacks of the Civil Rights push. Not many people remember that there were black nationalists agitating for "New Africa" in the black majority parts of the South. Also, Cuba still harbors as political asylum seekers black radicals who murdered police officers. The writing there was on the wall --- unless the US Government gave blacks what they wanted, the commies could have made things very interesting in the lowland South, at least interesting enough to keep the United States too preoccupied with an internal rebellion to mess around with the contested regions of the Third World.
My point here is that many nations have historic interests in different regions in the United States: Mexico has a historical interest in Aztlan, of course. Likewise, Ireland has a historic interest in New England given the huge amount of Irish ancestry. I wonder if Russia might intervene in the case of Alaska, or if Asian powers might intervene in the regions of the PNW with large Asian populations. In case of civil war, I can only imagine that there would be far, far more hands in the resulting mess than rural whites and everyone else, given the granularity of tribalism and the granularity of demography in which vast regions of the United States have majority nonwhite populations.
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Date: 2022-07-31 10:32 pm (UTC)In case of a new civil war in the United States I can only imagine that hostile foreign powers would fund the non white ethnic militias. The reason for this belief concerns the brass tacks of the Civil Rights push. Not many people remember that there were black nationalists agitating for "New Africa" in the black majority parts of the South. Also, Cuba still harbors as political asylum seekers black radicals who murdered police officers. The writing there was on the wall --- unless the US Government gave blacks what they wanted, the commies could have made things very interesting in the lowland South, at least interesting enough to keep the United States too preoccupied with an internal rebellion to mess around with the contested regions of the Third World.
My point here is that many nations have historic interests in different regions in the United States: Mexico has a historical interest in Aztlan, of course. Likewise, Ireland has a historic interest in New England given the huge amount of Irish ancestry. I wonder if Russia might intervene in the case of Alaska, or if Asian powers might intervene in the regions of the PNW with large Asian populations. In case of civil war, I can only imagine that there would be far, far more hands in the resulting mess than rural whites and everyone else, given the granularity of tribalism and the granularity of demography in which vast regions of the United States have majority nonwhite populations.