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Unbalanced Battle<\/b><\/p>\n

A \u2018civil war\u2019 would be uncivil<\/b><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

October 27th<\/sup> 2025<\/i><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been hearing more talk of late about an actual civil war breaking out in the United States. An actual war, and not the ongoing struggle that has been the 150 year legacy of the Civil War. There are, sadly, reasons for this. Trump and his backers are pushing more and more to create or at least plausibly claim an insurrection so Trump can declare martial law and sweep the bill of rights and elections aside for a fascist dictatorship.<\/p>\n

Certainly in the lead up to the No Kings protest October 18th<\/sup>, there were a lot of people openly hoping for widespread violence that could provide the impetus for Trump and his Project 2025 backers to shut down the United States once and for all. (Oh, people would still have their flag and anthem and even fake elections, because empty symbols are all that\u2019s needed for a lot of people).<\/p>\n

But the American people did themselves proud. Of the seven million plus protesters who turned out, exactly ONE was arrested nationwide. And he wasn\u2019t arrested for violent or seditious behavior: Alabama cops hauled him in because he was dressed as a giant inflatable penis. Truly, he stood tall and proud for his country, but even Trump would have trouble calling that violent rebellion.<\/p>\n

[Zeppnote:\u00a0 An alert reader contacted me to tell me this:<\/p>\n

The only thing wrong with your post is that the person in the penis costume was a woman!\u00a0 https:\/\/1819news.com\/news\/item\/court-appearance-pushed-back-for-woman-arrested-at-no-kings-protest-wearing-penis-costume<\/a><\/div>\n
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OK, so SHE stood tall and proud…!]<\/div>\n
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Interestingly, twenty-two others were arrested that day. All of them were Trump supporters who threatened or harassed peaceful protesters.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, the online propaganda about how the protesters were domestic terrorists who hated America vanished in a puff of smoke. But have no fear\u2014it will return. This bunch of wanna-be dictators lack creativity or originality\u2014all of their tactics and even the phrases used in their propaganda are straight out of the well-worn Nazi playbook. They can\u2019t even create their own agitprop, but this sack of losers think they can run a 21st<\/sup> century economy?<\/p>\n

Still, the danger is very real, and so talk of an actual insurrection and possible civil war will continue, on both sides of the fence.<\/p>\n

People tend to think of war as having distinct sides, along with battle lines and territories that are identifiable as being one side or the others. But even in the case of the actual Civil War, it was far more complicated than the simplistic maps in the history texts suggest. Both sides of the Mason-Dixon line had groups of resistors; saboteurs, propagandists, assassins. While the military lines were distinct, the populace was far more amorphous, with towns, neighborhoods, families and households all having their own civil strife. It\u2019s unlikely that any state in the war had better than 80% support amongst its peoples.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unlikely that the sort of strife being bandied about in America now would even have military lines. World War II was probably the last war that saw that phenomenon, and in an era of drone warfare and satellite surveillance, \u201cfrontlines\u201d have become meaningless.<\/p>\n

What is far more likely is an asymmetrical war, such as the ones the US fought (and lost) in Vietnam, or Iraq, or Afghanistan. It\u2019s unlikely any states will formally secede until things have well and truly collapsed and it may be that a counter-coup occurs before such an eventuality.<\/p>\n

What you will see the the rise of resistances nationwide. They will employ the timeless tactics of resistance fighters, planting IEDs, blowing up bridges, powerlines, roads, and canals. They will conduct whisper campaigns, claiming atrocities (some real, some not), and terrorizing suspected traitors to the cause. On local levels, Trump loyalists would be likely to adopt similar tactics.<\/p>\n

Psychological warfare will play a big role. Trump will continue wildly waving the flag, the bible, and warning of \u201cothers\u201d out to poison the pure blood of MAGAts. The resistance will hobble Trump forces anyway they can, and in a time-honored tactic bound to be extremely effective with Trump, try to poke the government forces into vicious overreactions. Does anyone for an instant think that Trump can\u2019t be provoked into doing something really stupid and ill-thought out? Anyone? Remember, this is the toddler who just slapped an additional 10% tariff on Canadian goods because the premier of one province aired a commercial that accurately showed Ronald Reagan warning of the destructiveness of tariffs! (BTW, remember all the red-baiters who screamed about communism meaning the government took over the economy? They\u2019re all supporting Trump\u2019s strongarm economic tactics!)<\/p>\n

Militias will play a role, although from what side will vary widely. Only the most utterly deluded would seek open battle with US military units since even the ones with military training would be no match at all.<\/p>\n

The position of the military itself is of considerable concern. Morale under Trump is eroding rapidly\u2014I see just today that members of one National Guard unit deployed to an American city to \u201crestore order\u201d are openly saying they will not obey any illegal orders and will uphold the Constitution. And I honestly have no idea how the Pentagon will go on all this. They know Trump and Hegseth are jokes, and that both stand in opposition to the Constitution. But we\u2019ve seen other institutions take the knee: law firms, universities, the big news stations (granted, bought out by cowardly and\/or malevolent corporate forces) so it\u2019s by no means certain that patriotism and loyalty will carry the day for the United States.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a future far too likely to happen. I hope it doesn\u2019t, because it will ruin tens and possibly hundreds of millions of lives, kill millions and possibly tens of millions of people, and wreak so much damage on the United States that it will take generations to recover\u2014if it ever does. And the safety and security of anyone reading this will be gone. For your sake and your family, let\u2019s hope this scenario doesn\u2019t eventuate.<\/p>\n

Right now the resistance is peaceful and thinking very clearly, and hopefully that will be enough to defeat Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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