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Tom Hamilton's avatar

Before worrying about civil war, ask “how many divisions do the enemy command?”

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E.M. Burlingame's avatar

We’re in it since 2008’ish. Just has yet to go hot. Though, that’s coming, and most probably rather soon.

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Andrea Pfeifer's avatar

Just subscribed because of this episode. Also following your war notes… good stuff. Love your lexicon. Love the break down… and even the stuff that goes over my head. Keep on keeping on my brother!

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Bill Buppert's avatar

Thanks for the kind words, the work is grinding at times but it makes me hone my own understanding to a finer edge of fidelity.

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JoshuaRayJongema.Com's avatar

Excellent. Listened to this twice today. You say a lot in few words.

At the start I thought perhaps you mainly analyze the operations level of warfare, but you sprinkle many concepts useful for strategic level thought, and very much in this episode.

America seems pulled back from the precipice which the corona emergency response and woke mind virus combined brought it to.

Mideast war and reactionary authoritarianism may be the next challenge, but we'll see when the dust settles, if it does, as you say.

Final thought: Austrian economics is the only objectively true economic system.

*Tips Hat*

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Bill Buppert's avatar

Thanks, twice. I am honored. The operational and strategic level both combine for the rational infrastructure of campaign analysis in the constant tension of the higher goal sets with the nuts ad bolts of execution at the tactical/operational level.

I actually find that my "Austrian" training makes me a better military analysts.

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jdrafts's avatar

Good stuff as always. Lots of thoughts. Over the weekend at the family get together all the people from up north moving down here came up and with zero prompting from me the consensus was if we had to have the influx of migrants we’d rather have mexicans than yankees. I’ve been thinking that for a while. Whatever the lines on a map say or the idea that we’re all one people. Last week got to talking to a contractor at work, never did get his name, older black gentleman. I could tell from the way he talked and how the conversation went that me and him were raised in the same culture in a way that me and a guy from New Jersey that moved down here just aren’t. For all that I’m white and he’s black.

I do think it’s going to come to a head here. It has to. It will be something. Staged or actually spontaneous. To put on my tinfoil hat for a second I wouldn’t be terribly shocked to learn that the empire encourages the mass migration of citizens within the empire to homogenize the population and take power from cohesive local communities that might cause them trouble or be recalcitrant about following imperial edicts. Which might end up in actual civil wars on a smaller scale as those little brush fires come to a head whether the whole thing comes to a head or not.

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Bill Buppert's avatar

I agree with al of your thoughts and have had the same conversations.

The DNC/CPUSA is using migration not a s a voter drive but a census bomb for more voter fraud opportunities in expanding the number of districts and ballooning budgets.

Keep in mind that the DNC/CPUSA is the public face f the US intelligence community. Always has been. That is why the curiosity of the Democrats being the war party makes sense.

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jdrafts's avatar

I got democrats in the family but that’s just because they refuse to vote republican because Lincoln was a republican. I might fall into that camp myself if I hadn’t decided there’s no point to voting for anything other than ballot initiatives.

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Matt Monster's avatar

Solid analysis - as always!

I’m in agreement with your forecasts - as usual!

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Bill Buppert's avatar

Thanks Matt, you are very kind.

The weather forecast is very cloudy with a chance of Thor's thunderstorms and a chaos avalanche of unintended consequences crashing on our heads.

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7dEdited

Great episode. Thomas chittum was a war junky from 1970-95 and predicted that Americas 2nd civil war would be demographically centered and would start in L.A.

https://youtu.be/iV4wRkFsbvA

https://archive.org/details/CivilWar2_201804/page/n7/mode/1up

I think he lives in WA and is still alive

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