[JasonC]

Since the south would win, and would have to fight for itself doing so, I have very little problem with that scenario.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Your interest in such an event is little reason to provoke it.

In the game of RISK only little wood/plastic pieces lose their lives. Here we are speaking of hundreds of thousands of deaths and worse. As well as immense economic reactions.

We cannot be sure of the military's ideological devotion to the regime. If high it would be very costly action.