When I wrote that piece in UnHerd a couple of months ago on the topic of civil war, said topic had just left the realm of the criminally insane and entered the fringes of polite society.
It now looks poised to become a major mainstream talking point.
newsweek.com/2021/12/31/mil…
It now looks poised to become a major mainstream talking point.
newsweek.com/2021/12/31/mil…
You have to wonder if stuff like this appearing in WaPo, newsweek, the Atlantic etc is a sort of trial balloon for more or less using the military/national guard for a massive show of strength around 2024. If so, that's just a crazy level of risk-taking.
The US military is in a terrible shape, and those generals in WaPo are likely 100% correct in saying that the armed forces are just too demoralized, unreliable, or outright loyal to the other team to be of much use.
But US elites - from my very limited experience - today have this serene attitude of "just throw it on the floor, the dogs will eat it" regarding the apparatus of state. They are so stuck in abstract thinking that they're blind to the human element.
As the beheaded King Charles I put it: "There is more to the doing, than bidding it be done." The US is rapidly approaching the danger zone where one shouldn't rely on regulars to do much of anything controversial.
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