UN troops would unite and motivate every armed patriot and probably 2/3 of the military across the country. That’s just a sheer logistical and force projection impossibility (barring us being drastically thinned out prior).
Yeah, keep an eye on Myanmar
Civil wars are most uncivil.
During our War of Independence, the war was fought as fixed battles in the North, but in the South it was guerilla warfare. Night-riding militias loyal to the Continental Congress and those loyal to the Crown went on rampages, burning and killing those loyal to the other side.
In our Civil War, historians tend to concentrate on the fixed battles, but in the border states it was guerilla war. The beginning of Clint Eastwood’s 1976 film, “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” gives an accurate picture of life in a border state where irregulars burned and killed their way across the countryside.
A similar experience today would be catastrophic.
First off, people on this board like to say, “We have all the weapons, and our opponents don’t even know which bathroom to use.” Run a search on the “John Brown Gun Club of Seattle” to see if we have a monopoly on weaponry.
The collapse of the government’s ability to have the last word on violence would create what Hobbes called “ a state of nature.” We prefer the shorter term “anarchy” today. It says so much more.
Imagine having to maintain a 24 hour watch on your home or barricaded neighborhood to keep out those whom the local authorities can no longer control. Imagine your own participation in a militia raid, not to take the property of others, but to kill those who would happily kill you first. Think of Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya brought to our shores.
Then think of hostile nations who would gladly take advantage of our involvement in a civil war to move on us – or even get involved with our conflict.
UN troops would unite and motivate every armed patriot and probably 2/3 of the military across the country.
But suppose they were infiltrated while we were preoccupied.
A decade or so ago, I went to the Vancouver Art Museum to see the Forbidden City Exhibit. Security was provided by shaven-headed Chinese men in business suits with police-style radios. From their military bearing, there was no doubt in my mind that I was witnessing NCOs of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army on Canadian soil protecting the valuable objects of their heritage. Foreign troops may not be wearing uniforms when they are brought in.
If the post with the microscopic print is correct, I can see the White Hats shying away from anything resembling civil war. The final plan may be similar to the long march of the Marxists through our institutions; in other words, a decades-long plan.