[Steve Newton]

Maybe

But if the established government resists our efforts to “get out from under oppression” a civil war would be the result.

I pray it remains a “cold” war.

[MrB]

I know it’s a matter of symantics,
but that still wouldn’t be a civil war any more
than the war of 1776 was a civil war.

Same situation - people demanding independence, government insisting they remain under their thumb.