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Are the USA heading towards civil war?
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As if some private guns would be any sort of fair fight against the full force of the US military anyway
As if an organised military of any kind has any hope of winning a guerrilla war in one of the largest, most populous, and most heavily armed countries on earth.
The ability of the American people to defeat the American army in a revolution is solely dependent on their willingness to take casualties. It's been shown time and again that a massively superior army like the US really isn't able to deal with a war where enemy combatants are also the civilian population. An exception is Israel in Gaza, where they've decided to just level everything to the ground, and massacre the civilians.
The American public lost their minds at 2k casualties in 2001. I doubt they have the determination for a civil war.
American soldiers surely wouldn't turn against their own civilian compatriots en masse, right? ๐
Some would not, others just do what they're told.
And some would be happy to do that. That group might not be large, but these fuckers are usually officers, not common soldiers, so they have more power.