By clinging to American primacy through force and intimidation, Donald Trump is, ironically, undermining US global power. A saboteur trying to subvert US interests from the inside could hardly do better than what he’s accomplished through sheer incompetence.
It’s be cool if the overseas bases had some balls and just said, “fuck it, we’ll just side with our hosting country.” I guess it could really happen without a mini civil war on base.
Because the US isn’t at a full on tipping point on that yet, because yes, that’s when civil wars start.
US Civil War #1 started over a military base. If POTUS declares and attack on a major ally, that’s probably going to be the starting gun for the second one.
The U.S. Civil War #1 never really ended (confederate flags all over the South, institutionalized racism, legal slavery in for-profit prisons, etc.), it just went into a “cold” phase. It is certainly heating up again.
I agree with this as someone who grew up an hour away from Harrison Arkansas, but I say #1 just because historically the hot war does have defined dates.
So far everyone’s done what they’ve been told or simply quit, lets see how the FBI vs Innocent Lawmakers goes down though.