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Americans struggle to envision how the US may be faced with a new civil war, because we think a civil war entails massed armies fighting set piece battles over territory. But we’re not in the 19th century any more, & that’s not how wars (including civil wars) get fought nowadays.
Nowadays wars (including civil wars) get fought with information operations, “little green men,” targeted assassinations, and cyberattacks designed mainly to demoralize & disorient the adversary.

Seen from that perspective, Civil War 2.0 has ALREADY begun in the United States.
The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed
A key component of almost every sustained insurgency is LEO complicity
And if you want the historical background to what's going on with policing in Wisconsin, check out this piece by @SimonBalto journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10…
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