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It looks a long way off, you'd need widespread public support on both sides and that isn't happening any time soon. You'd also need the majority to back both sides and split rather than declare a pox on both left and right and follow their own path. It is not impossible but would take time and...

You are assuming this happens overnight, like at the stroke of midnight we go from the current set up to all out war. More likely it is a gradual process over the course of years with gathering tensions and violence. It is very unlikely you'd just have the country drive off a cliff, more a fast...

The most effective fighters in the Syrian war are foreign volunteers, ex-Nato soldiers on one side, Chechens on the other. I'd expect similar units here and they'd do a good job bridging the quality gap between different factions. Maybe trouble with the cartels too if border security is weakened.

Question is how do you define an enemy? It is fairly unlikely a conflict happens because the government does something cacklingly evil, more likely it is a gradual process as different groups snap one by one starting with the extremes and accelerating the closer it gets to the centre. So if you...

In a situation like that it wouldn't be the regular army you'd be facing, they wouldn't use their tanks to put down an insurgency as they'd be busy fighting other tanks and regular forces. It would be one bunch of irregulars vs another group of irregulars, something more like Einsatzgruppen...

I really do hope you chaps never have to find out

To quote a Klingon, everything is a weapon :) If your wife and kids are starving you'll find a way even if you go and Mad Max it. Even if you fortify towns can you fortify ten thousand acres of wheat field when desperate people trample it robbing your town of its future supply? Rural areas are...

That is where most of the deaths would be yeah. The issue would be though that those people won't politely sit in their cities and wait to die, they'll mount up and go looking for food. It'll be a mass exodus into those rural areas and sure those towns will be armed to the teeth but thats a lot...

Problem is if you provide escorts it dilutes your forces, makes it harder to concentrate for offensive action. Plus you need to defend the bridges, highways, tunnels, depots etc. IEDs are easy to make and as people keep saying the country is awash in guns. I think the main issue is that in 1860...

If there is an all out US Civil war Canada will be too busy dealing with millions of starving possibly armed refugees swamping its border More likely the worst case is going to be Irish style acts of sectarian violence until people get sick of it and force a settlement. First world nations are...

It always amused me how the most English man on Star Trek was played by a guy called Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdul Karim El Mahdi

Have a picture of one of the most English of Englishmen :p

A very sensible position to hold I think, I can see why SB banned you :p

I am talking more about the violent suppression of one's own citizens which was the topic of the time, not something like an armed foreign invasion of course. Personally I think the best way to fix any possible demographic issues is just to go out there and have a family yourself

If you need to kill people to stay in power, you shouldn't be in power.