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So is the US slipping into Civil War? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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People keep talking about "Federalizing the National Guard" and now you've got other States pledging their NG to Texas in defiance of the Supreme Court (see image).

So is this what CW2 looks like?

P.S. I'm a Brit

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There’s probably not going to be a civil war.

So.... there's still a chance then....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you read the popular opinions around 1860, we have the same “we are right and we’ll show them” attitude building up in the new poor-people-and-women slave states.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah I see it (as a not American looking in from outside the country). Every time I visit the USA, the changes in things are more and more visible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

did we even have a federal military back then tho? because we have one now and no state could prevail over it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The US Regular Army (RA) was founded in 1775. State militias supported the RA through the various wars fought on what is now US soil (including the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812). In the Civil War, the RA was supported by volunteers and fought on the side that ultimately won. The Confederate Army was similar to the RA at the time. Currently, the RA has been absorbed into the US Army (including Army Reserve and National Guard).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_Army_(United_States) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Army

So... yes there was a federal military, but it was a different thing than the US Army is now. How that would play out if things went bonkers in 2025... who knows. There are a LOT of people around the world watching VERY closely though... and really hoping (not that confidently though) that sanity will prevail.