The red states are net takers compared to federal. Taxes paid. In this hypothetical civil conflict all sides are materially worse off but the south would be worst by a margin. Material deprivation by the general populace can end a war, but it doesn’t always.

See Russia in Ukraine for an example.

Where the lines are matters, whether Ohio and Michigan are in the NEUS or the south makes a big difference in population and industry.

Texas would last long enough to be dangerous to it’s neighbors. I would not want to be in New Mexico if federal power breaks down.

In the American Civil War the North had the advantage in Navy, population, wealth, and industrial power.

Now those advantages in population and industrial capacity are flipped. In the scenario you project the south could devolve into infighting and hollow out, but a single charismatic figure could unite them, and that would pose a terrible threat to the NEUSA and the Cali Republic. Have you read Rurtledove’s American Front?

Well I also don’t believe in Carceral punishment so take that as you will.

Kim Jong Un’s brother was killed by squirt guns filled with poison.

The shooters thought they were pranking him. Some guy gave them plastic squirt guns and said “squirt that man we are gonna film it for the internet.”

The real assassin was never caught.

Lots of women have been scarred for life by a splash of strong acid, primarily in the Muslim world.

Squirting someone with a liquid is a terror attack.

Technically this was an acid attack.

Glad she is OK.

I read last month that Ireland has reconsidered the US as a safe country. They are more willing than most to buck the neolibreral dogma. But they are not better than most for conditions for refugees. The leftist cooks made a video about trans asylum seekers in Ireland.

They are not having a good time, and it’s not clear to me that they are definitely safer either.

If you have money, sure, but the interviewed woman left San Francisco, which is a place most people would move to, if they were trying to escape violence.

If you are not top 10% going to live in poverty in Europe probably seems more attractive than living in poverty in a blue state.

Did the judge empower local law enforcement to arrest and detain ICE agents?

This is assuming we ever had a functioning DOJ.

That’s a calculation each of us has to make personally. If you are white, a citizen, have people that rely on you, and are wealthy enough that they can fight a legal battle for you, maybe don’t resist and hope for the best. If you are none of those, and you think you might get sent to a concentration camp or Africa, maybe defend yourself as best you can.

Good luck to everyone.

Clearly the German Communists were to blame for the holocaust because they failed to stop Hitler and the Nazis.

That’s what you sound like.

They could withhold taxes on state employees. That would be easy. If they wanted to go full second civil war, They could pass laws making it illegal for companies to pay taxes to the federal government.

If they are smart, they will still hold the elections just refuse to seat reps from 5-6 blue states. That would keep them in power for another 2 years.

The UK and France combined would have a problem if there was a single carrier parked in the North Atlantic. They might have a chance if all the US Carriers and subs were 2000 miles away.

There is nothing anyone except the US can do about a US annexation of Greenland, short of Nuclear weapons.

Reporters are disporoportionaly from wealthy families. Poor people are less able to work unpaid internships for 3-4 years to get their foot in the door. They aren’t the wealthy members of their families but they usually from well off backgrounds.

There are exceptions but most of them have some class bias.

If the USA is the attacker, article 5 is meaningless. 80% of Nato that can reach Greenland is the American Military. The rest can’t sustain an operation for more than a couple weeks without US logistics.

If the US goes palpatine, the rest of Nato are sitting ducks. They would need years to gear up to sustain operations beyond their own borders.

World leaders are doing things. Europe has committed large sums of money to building out their defense industries, China has been building out it’s military capabilities for decades, Canada has used tarrifs to strategically punish the US for it’s tarrifs on Canadian goods and joined the European defense partnership, presumably to gain access to the aforementioned defense industry build out in Europe. Japan is increasing it’s military spending and moving to amend it’s constitution to remove the restrictions on military force.

Sanctions against the US like those on Iran are possible, but for a country as large and wealthy as the US with such a diversified economy, even if the entire world sanctioned the US it would plunge them into desperate poverty.

It would wreck the US economy, no doubt, but most world leaders are not willing to even suggest their people should endure that level of hardship over Nicolas Maduro. And the US would still have most of the world ability to project military power, so driving us into a corner like that would be incredibly dangerous.

Make no mistake, every world leader and especially every head of state in Latin America is considering the chance that delta Force could pull them out of bed at 3 AM, I imagine Sheinbaum in Mexico, Lula in Brazil, have a few new grey hairs and especially Cubas head of state is sweating bullets. They don’t have the power to prevent it.

I am personally reviewing my options for how to protest this action.

Yeah, Israel was able to launch a shit ton of Missiles into Iran, and some of the Iranian Missiles hit Israel, even through the Iron dome, the tightest missile defense system in the world.

This is the real reason. They want us confined to basements, closets, or graves.