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devotech2 on scored.co
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Well, professor Jiang Xueqin, who has been right a lot of times before (but also has been wrong to be fair), says that the future of America will be analogous to the troubles in northern ireland rather than a full scale civil war. Complete with the disgraced citizens who want to break free being compared to the IRA, the US government being compared to the British, and the brainwashed masses being compared to the loyalists.
In truth I at least somewhat agree with this notion. Unfortunately, the US public is too full of people who are utterly incompetent and completely lacking in will to actually *create* a civil war. So it will be down to a small insurgency that cannot *actually* be fought to instill enough fear via terrorism (yes, terrorism is ethical here, the IRA were terrorists and this is why they were based) that the government cedes ground and gives up. The main lesson to learn from the actual troubles is to be vigilant for counter-intelligence, because that's the only reason why the IRA did not get everything they wanted, because they dominated in guerilla warfare (the ZOGbot casualty ratio during the troubles was fucking humiliating) and they dominated the hearts and minds game by being an absolute menace to British politicians up to the level of the royal family.
This will be particularly exacerbated by a US failure in the war with Iran. If there are boots on the ground, *especially* by disgraced veterans of the conflict. The most successful paramilitaries are ones that have a lot of combat veterans in them. Just look at the SA. Combat veterans are also a breeding ground for extreme views and willingness to use violence and intimidation, which is a necessary trait to have.
I have actually been studying the IRA a lot and I believe that their model of resistance is probably the most applicable and usable in the United states. The taliban *could* be used as an example, but the mindset of mountain dwelling tribal Muslims is *far* different from the mindset of Americans, so what they do is not immediately applicable. The mindset and beliefs of catholic Irish people are not, however, far at all from Americans, or other europeans for that matter, so this is useful for study and can be copied successfully.
Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed
In truth I at least somewhat agree with this notion. Unfortunately, the US public is too full of people who are utterly incompetent and completely lacking in will to actually *create* a civil war. So it will be down to a small insurgency that cannot *actually* be fought to instill enough fear via terrorism (yes, terrorism is ethical here, the IRA were terrorists and this is why they were based) that the government cedes ground and gives up. The main lesson to learn from the actual troubles is to be vigilant for counter-intelligence, because that's the only reason why the IRA did not get everything they wanted, because they dominated in guerilla warfare (the ZOGbot casualty ratio during the troubles was fucking humiliating) and they dominated the hearts and minds game by being an absolute menace to British politicians up to the level of the royal family.
This will be particularly exacerbated by a US failure in the war with Iran. If there are boots on the ground, *especially* by disgraced veterans of the conflict. The most successful paramilitaries are ones that have a lot of combat veterans in them. Just look at the SA. Combat veterans are also a breeding ground for extreme views and willingness to use violence and intimidation, which is a necessary trait to have.
I have actually been studying the IRA a lot and I believe that their model of resistance is probably the most applicable and usable in the United states. The taliban *could* be used as an example, but the mindset of mountain dwelling tribal Muslims is *far* different from the mindset of Americans, so what they do is not immediately applicable. The mindset and beliefs of catholic Irish people are not, however, far at all from Americans, or other europeans for that matter, so this is useful for study and can be copied successfully.
Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed