Until the power goes out in cities, which will happen, and will ratchet the violence far beyond the Troubles. The IRA was tiny and virtually unarmed compared to what tens of millions of conservative Americans have in their gun safes today. Less than 200 “Active IRA” at any given time tied down tens of thousands of British troops for 20+ years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Banner
In an American dirty civil war, angry farmers (to name just one aggrieved faction) across an area a thousand times larger than Northern Ireland will hold a veto power on the urban power supply.
“In short, Civil War Two will quickly become an urban versus rural conflict divided along demographic and cultural lines. This type of dirty civil war will be fought at the zip code and neighborhood level. Front lines will be vague and constantly shifting, with three or more local factions often competing for supremacy. It will be a civil war of secret arrests, disappearances, IEDs and targeted assassinations that will have many of the worst attributes of Argentina and Northern Ireland in the 1970s, or even Rwanda and former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
“And once this vicious civil war is in full swing, the odds are high that the power grid itself will become the target of ten thousand attacks. In such a fluid crazy-quilt battlespace as an all-out dirty civil war, shared infrastructure lines will run through both friendly and enemy territory. Every faction will have a veto on their downstream enemy’s power grid and water supply. Food supplies that today are trucked from hundreds or thousands of miles away will disappear in this dangerous environment. Brainwashed Dunning-Kruger Democrats and their FACLI reinforcements might not enjoy living around evil and oppressive white devils very much today, but they are going to enjoy life without electricity, food, and clean drinking water even less. They will discover that it’s much easier to turn Minneapolis into Mogadishu than the reverse.
“What will happen inside the blue hives that are presently organized as DemSoc vote-harvesting plantations, when the EBT system collapses? When no electricity, food or water is flowing in to sustain their populations? This dystopian dynamic is likely to occur in some cities or regions earlier than in others, and this will lead to the imposition of extremely harsh measures, including martial law and food rationing in other parts of the country. Alternatively, where government control is weak, local vigilantism will become rampant.”
Matt I agree completely with the urban rural battle lines. I’ve felt for a long time that is where the confrontational interface will be.
“Until the power goes out in cities, which will happen, “
That’s just a fantasy of loons online that hype themselves up on their fantasy of some war of the scope of the 1860s taking place in the 2020s.
Like what idiotic thing will that achieve other than turning otherwise disinterested people against whatever side is dumb enough to do it?
” The IRA was tiny and virtually unarmed compared to what tens of millions of conservative Americans have in their gun safes today.”
I hate to break this to you, but “tens of millions of conservative Americans” arent going to engage in killing anyone when most of them cant even be bothered to do something like the Yellow Vests in France are doing.
IF this ever happens, it will be a limited deal, with some large but isolated incidents on occasions, but no side is going to be some massive organized army with advanced weapons marching on some city to lay waste to it or conqueror some region.
It isnt going to be “Rural Vs. City” or some fantasy “race war” either. Most people aren’t going to want anything to do with this, and any side with some nutcase that just starts killing innocent people because they “fit” some trope of whom they think the “bad guys” are, will quickly lose public support, and doom whatever cause they had.
Much easier to say than to do.
Your average rebel is not going to be able to switch power on and off at the neighborhood level. The grid isn’t set up that way.
Even turning the power off to an individual house is dangerous if you don’t know what your doing.