“Against equipment like armored vehicles, artillery, attack helicopters, close air support, bomber squadrons and predator drones, a domestic insurgency here in the States will be ruthlessly, decisively, and promptly crushed.”
I wouldn’t count on that. When the military is forced to attack the citizens of it’s own country and choose sides between a marxist giving orders and their own family, it will get ugly inside the military and at the capital. Look for a violent overthrow of the boobs at the top first.
What about the butts at the bottom?
> I wouldn’t count on that.
I’m not counting on it.
I’m just not as optimistic as you.
In the war between the Federalists and the Confederates, the military leaders picked their sides, as did the men they led. Families were divided and shooting at eachother. The military on either side had no problems effecting brutal, ruthless prosecution of the war, even shelling civilian populations and executing non-committal citizens as traitors and spies.
More Americans died in that war than in all the other wars combined.
A conflict between the Communists and the Constitutionalists has every prospect of being at least as bloody. The only thing that could make such a conflict less bloody is the overwhelming technical and arms advantage wielded by whoever controls the Federal military. That advantage would render such a conflict as merely crushing a rebellion.
Oh, and if the Communists win, and they will if they control the lion’s share of the US military, Constitutionalism will be discredited, disallowed as treason, and effectively dead.