• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Or just do nothing. Huff through it like we’ve been doing for the last 250 years.

    That’s far more likely than any radical geopolitical reorganization. Nobody in the US government with enough authority to affect a real secessionist movement actually wants a secessionist movement to exist. They all think they’ve got the next bite at the White House apple.

    Hell, even in the OG Civil War, the first thing the Confederates did was march on Washington. The CSA never intended to be permanently divided. They were going to conquer and subjugate the north just as they’d subjugated Florida and Cuba and Texas and California in decades prior. The momentum among nations has always been consolidation. We only see break ups - like in the Balkins - when the central leadership of the domestic government is decapitated and a foreign country needs to divide in order to conquer.

    nuclear war with China

    Everyone wants to wave their fists at China. Nobody actually wants to stand up in that fight.

    Douglas MacArthur learned that lesson far too well for any modern military leadership to seriously want to repeat it.

    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 minutes ago

      Doing nothing really helped during the 1930s in Germany. /s

      Back then there were the mighty Soviet Union on one side and the massive war industry of the US on the other. Together, with other allied forces, they were able to fight back the nazis.

      Right now, the fascists have the mightiest army. The largest and second largest airforces in the world (the airforce and the navy airforce). 11 mega carriers, military bases all over the globe.

      Who’s going to stop them? Euro forces are fragmented as everyone has their own materiel. China could stand up, but who wants them to win. I mean come on, it’s China. Russia is depleted by Ukraine, plus fuck Russia. India couldn’t care less.