• NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Historically yes, an uprising of civilians has a great chance at asymmetrical warfare on their own turf.

    You can’t destroy your own infrastructure like you can someone else’s.

    Will they win? Almost certainly not.

    Can they force some concessions? Probably

        • RealFknNito@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          They’d pull punches but lets not kid ourselves, Texas is not going to last very long against checks notes the entire United States military

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              10 months ago

              The Taliban didn’t have their home base on American soil. They were a significant distance overseas which created a lot of logistical barriers.

              It’s the difference between walking next door to kill your neighbor and catching a flight to kill him while he’s on vacation.

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                10 months ago

                If you think Texans can’t mount an insurgency that would turn extraordinarily bloody for both sides, you’re crazy. A significant part of the military would switch sides too, and we’d have a full blown civil war on our hands.

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                  10 months ago

                  “A significant part of the military would switch sides too” So you think a large portion of the military would casually commit treason? The Military is built on following orders even when you don’t like them. Especially when you don’t like them. A bunch of hics LARPing as guerrilla fighters on American soil are not going to stand very long, at all. The red hats are a good target from 30,000 feet.

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                    10 months ago

                    So you think a large portion of the military would casually commit treason?

                    I wouldn’t have thought that many civilians would either but they did.

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      10 months ago

      They wouldn’t stand a chance. They’re power grid is so brittle. The US military would destroy it probably within minutes of an actual war being started. The people who can’t stand the heat or the cold (depending on the time of year) would turn on them so quickly.

      Just like the south in the civil war, they don’t have the infrastructure for the logistics needed to fight a war.

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        10 months ago

        You know unless the struggle is within the us military or the military wont get involved

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      These aren’t the Taliban. These are a bunch of obese losers with handguns. They have nothing once McDonalds pull out.