I first heard about this and Matt on the Prepping 2.0 Podcast a few years ago. This piece among other factors helped inform my decision to GTFO, AKA COOHMP.
Things are quiet because recon work is going on. The vast majority of blacks have been duped yet again but they have been promised everything white people own. Coupled with the Muslim and Hispanic populations, only the most prepared and clever white people will survive. Rich or poor, rural or urban. Don’t forget about the fact that white people have been turned into self loathing virtue signaling enemies of their own race. They will help find you and kill you!
I have heard you give this information before and this essay was great. It's absolutely true. Since RFK Jr., has been sworn in and the video and imagery from that moment in the WH went past my eyes, I considered something to which I have been trying to put into words in an attempt to identify the significance. There is something you might be able to use or if you can, take your own swing at it.
The image was of RFK Jr., taking his oath of office and giving his short acceptance speech under that huge portrait of Reagan and the camera panning back to encompass Trump and Rand Paul. What about that picture is significant and ad Tulsi Gabert in that as well. Perhaps even JD Vance as a former Trump hater. What is the curious thread and what might it reflect in the US Citizenry (not including those who haven't been shipped out or left on their own yet)? Reagan, Trump, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabert and probably a few more, were or are "former Democrats" who now work for Trump 2.0. Maybe Elon was a big player in the DNC? Aren't former smokers the worst around smoke?
In the past few years, outside the Beltway, I have found many people who don't look alike or pray alike, have come to the conclusion that a change had to be made. Is that enough to keep the guerilla war from kicking off? Only time will tell. I hope we can get lucky and all of us ride these coming financial ups and downs together. That is what I worry about here in the UNited States.
My position still, is that we need to remake local and state governments, now more than ever.
Excellent writing and perfect assessment as always sir!
and here is the lesson Mason and Jefferson tried use but "We the People" screwed the pooch (from that great zero hedge article you sent)
"The Most Dangerous Time Is When You Think You Are Winning
Establishment elites are like vampires. In fact, I suspect the whole mythology of vampires from centuries ago is actually based on the very real and evil crimes of the elites of the past. They use their wealth and influence to gain a foothold in your country, city or village. They use subterfuge to gain trust and exert authority. They spread darkness and corruption like a cancer, then they feed on the population at will while pretending to be benevolent leaders.
But these parasites must be invited in by the people. The public has to, in some ways, give consent to their own victimization. We have to willfully ignore their activities; our apathy is seen as consent. Sunlight is the primary remedy and the vampires flee when it’s unleashed. Finally, if all else fails a stake through the heart is required to end them. It could be a proverbial stake, or a very real one.
Audits of the corrupt system are the sunlight. Independent patriot rebellion is the stake through the heart if all else fails.
Just because the evil is exposed does not necessarily mean it will stop or disappear. Often these cornered creatures fight even harder and their mission is to take you down with them. Great truth often precedes the darkest of days and the collapse of epochs. As the shadow government faces uncertainty for perhaps the first time ever, who knows how the leviathan will react?"
There are other items I'm re-reading, looking for things to use on my other substack pages. I know you know the story of Nathaniel Bacon from 1676 and the "Bacon Rebellion". I think what we see with Trump today, mirrors what happened then, up to a point. However, our story is far from over. We may yet end up in violence as you've spoken to. That was the lesson Mason and Jefferson learned from Bacon in their attempt to not revolt with guns first but lead with paper. History shows, that didn't work either. You concerns are most valid Matt!
I think about it too Vince. Personally that’s what happened I am fine with it. Had the status quo carried forward we had 2 years at best until major SHTF calamity called. Not served in the military or LE but have been in enough violent encounters to understand it. A serious person like Putin had to have been thinking. Hit them before they hit me.
It’s very possible after Russia refused to yield some people with some brains said we have to STOP. We have to stop the push to WW3. We have to stop the push to collapse the nation.
I don't mind it either. It had to be done. My position was always the people should have the sense to see they've had the power all long. It is interesting that all of the open-ended powers usurped from the Constitution since the day it began being used (notice I didn't say followed-LOL) have always been used to enlarge the powers of Government. The other day, I pointed to the usurpations of Marbury v Madison and Martin (Heir of Fairfax) v Hunter's Lessee were how the Judiciary grabbed huge amounts of power, even though Congress tried to settle it with "legislation" but found out it was another branch to which even Congress has limited powers.
I know a lot of smart people. I have known a lot of military officers and agency directors from my youth and my career. I have no doubt, that all of those who are gone now, would have never suspected what we find with DOGE.
Honestly, I think we had two years before somebody would hoist a flag over parts of our nation and declare those places belonged to somebody else.
We must guard against reversals Luke. Like a tsunami, they will charge back at us.
We must also take Matt's warning seriously. Heads on a swivel now and for a long time.
Listening now, wanted to see if you saw my other comment on this post about blacks. I think it’s the most likely scenario and why we have seen no leftist violence.
Poplar Report huh, sounds like a rational dude. Hmm X is banning Signal links. That’s interesting as hell.
My mind often drifts. No doubt in my mind TPTB were leading us to hell. “You will own nothing.” “It will be a very angry world.” Two statements from Klaus Schwab foreshadowing just where this was all heading.
When he said that in 2021 it alerted me that we don’t go from “this” (current status with asset ownership) to “that” (own nothing) without a shitload of chaos. I suspect Klaus and friends took Russia to be a pushover. The sanctions and bloody conflict would easily end them.
So after that plan failed what to do? They have been setting up a crash of society. I think many of them got scared perhaps and threw the hot potato to Trump. Sort of a Hail Mary if you will.
Just a theory, I am ultimately glad they did if that’s what indeed happened.
I have a few things on my own. I have been trying to show people for years that we have been driven by the Royal families because they want their stuff back. That can be really difficult to separate from. I hope it happens.
I think a lot of people have missed what has happened. I caught wind of it in October after leaning Trump was at a campaign rally in Detroit. When I heard that he was going to NYC Madison SG I had to ask myself how in the hell is he doing these types of events? I think everyone will agree both forums were Off Limits in 2016/20. All hell would have broken loose.
What I suspect has happened is the Dems most reliable and violent shock troops are in limbo. I am talking about American Blacks. Look how effectively the left could manipulate and control them to be excessively violent. Every encounter since Rodney King grew more ridiculous and more dangerous. However, I would be full of shit if I told you their riots didn’t work. They were extremely effective at sowing political terror.
I attribute this to the Lefts behavior last several years; particularly with illegal immigration. Imagine voting D your entire life to learn the new comers were getting spoiled with EBT and luxury hotels. Lol that had to have left a mark. There were plenty of sound bytes where the black community was angered by these actions.
So effectively the Dems sold off their best shock troops in exchange for migrants. Let’s call it Poetic Justice. People on the right keep asking the question “Where is the left? Why are they behaving?” Well that’s my answer.
I think it’s important we understand because if we don’t appreciate what happened it could potentially relapse. I think it is also good to remind blacks WHO sold them out after being so loyal. So that’s why we have seen peace in recent days.
I am NOT saying that peace will hold. But If the right is clever it just might.
He was a war junky and served in Vietnam, Rhodesia, and i believe on the Croatian side of the Yugoslavian war. He came to the same conclusion after realizing all these conflicts were ethnic in nature and analyzed the USA under ethnic fault lines.
Read enemies foreign and domestic while on the 31st (30 worst) MEU and appreciate your writings and a cure to the boredom.
Ive tried to also warn friends and family to relocate to areas with the same demographics and views as them but they just see me as some burned out Recondo. Such is the curse of Cassandra.
What a Civil War would look like, it might be brief (one side doesn't know what bathroom to use), Neocons can't decide (WW3 or CW?) & more Civil War memes as Hollywood releases a Civil War 2 movie!
Unfortunately, I have participated in the civil war in former Yugoslavia as a combatant. Once a beautiful country, an oasis of peace, freedom and brotherly love, took only a few years to become a brutal and viscous battleground.
Of course, it would never happen if there were no foreign influence and foreign intelligence services actively working to bring to power and later support nationalist leaders and political parties. After that, only a spark was sufficient to ignite it.
I will not try to elaborate who started first, etc, because it would be a very long essay, but I pray that you, Americans do everything in your power to avoid it.
However, I can see that you are very close to meeting all the necessary preconditions. Then, a spark will be all that is needed….
My concern is I live in the cauldron of the Pacific Northwest and my state is going Jefferson Davies .
My governor of Washington State Ferguson has long been a Left wing bully . There are three bills heading for Ferguson's desk that are in open opposition to Trump. He may back down but Nick Brown our AG will not .
On our northern border Canada and China are doing war drills together and the British Columbia Premier Ebby is farther left than Ferguson . I live between Portland Oregon and Seattle Washington and this corridor would welcome Chinese troops streaming in from Canada. China does not need a beach head they have British Columbia.
Thanks for the review, Matt. Somehow, with all the revelations of the past several weeks, there's a sense that Trump is kindling hope, and actions, that lead to a new path.
Dems appear stunned and disorganized, falling back on old tactics to stall the momentum. Perhaps they have been so demoralized that they never recover. Or their aged leaders aren't up for a renewed fight. Or maybe if their funding dries up, their antics fail, too. Martin Armstrong has said for years that the Dem party dissolves after this election.
But for CW2, are we talking about something organic, the product of simmering resentments on the horizontal populace level? Or will CW2 be a vertical top-down engineered effort? I'd like to think the Trump effect blunts both possibilities -- as more of the simmering populace recognizes that their problems don't come from their other race/income neighbors, but from the manipulators in govt.
I think the Dems believed their own propaganda, so they were not prepared for reality. Many just don’t know anyone from fly over country or conservative.
I have devoted a great deal more thought to peaceful partition than to CW2 but some of the same dynamics apply. The Great Sort is a real thing at least along ideological lines and your warning about not being left behind enemy lines applies even with no war. Crime, educational dysfunction and social isolation are no fun. Your fish graphic also applies since a number of otherwise rural conservative states are politically controlled by a Big Blue City. There a mechanism to fix this before the war starts by changing state boundaries if the will exists. Otherwise the boundaries will be the ceasefire lines.
Some exceptions here in the West deserve more attention. First, Indians. Poor, dark and rural and they control a lot of land far from metro areas. How much cohesion will they have and how will they interact with their while and Hispanic neighbors. Lots of whites live on the rez and could be an example of your caution about people being pressured to turn on their neighbors. A few years back some long term leases on Apache land expired and the tribe took the land back. Lots of expensive homes got burned down. Second, Mormons. Rich, white and rural based though probably a majority are urban. Very cohesive and very prepared. In a partition, I can imagine an independent Deseret. More so in a war. Finally, rich white and urban with "vacation homes " among poor rural whites. You see that a lot in PNW. Lots of tension about culture, resources and ideology. My advice to them is to join the gun club, a church, the volunteer fire department, local Elks or whatever, and the Republican Party. Form marriage alliances. Blend or be behind enemy lines which is bad in a partition and worse in a war. It is also going to suck to be rich, white and urban.
If I understand it correctly Oregon and Idaho are working on changing boundaries to make part of Oregon (the part without all the commies) Greater Idaho.
Indiana's legislature has approved the idea of taking a couple of dozen central and south eastern Illinois counties under the same boundary change idea. Thus far 34 of Illinois' 102 counties have voted to leave or form a new state.
Correct about Idaho. Don't know about IN. There are a lot more movements out there but no one seems to have the momentum of Greater Idaho. I have long maintained that the leftists in the cities want to be rid of us as much as we want to be rid of them. People in the rural areas need to ramp it up. Trick at the Federal level will to be not to upset the balance of power. So a new Missouri Compromise.
The boundary change appears to be the cleanest legal way to do it. It would just require both states to agree to a boundary change. There would be no change in the number of states, number of US Senators etc. Both states would I assume have to do a congressional reapportionment. Illinois will undoubtedly oppose the wishes of its citizens as it always does because the 34 counties which I believe would likely wind up being 40-50 with a lot on the west side wanting to attach to Iowa or Missouri. MO would likely not want to have to take the shit sandwich called East St. Louis but who knows? Illinois will not want to be left as a rump entity with no industry, dominated by communist public unions and semi-literate urbanites. With the crazy tax demands, gun grabbing, crackpot environmental regs, EV mandates, the entire conservative litany of lib stupidity, it may at some point get down to blocking the highways at county lines to get them to either change their ways or negotiate with Indiana and Iowa. Most Sheriffs would probably fall in line with this as they are sickened by the lawless filth running wild because of Pritzker's "Safety Act" which allows felons to walk with no bail for everything and this Sanctuary State crap which allows illegals to run wild. Some of these guys have even found ways to "drop off" ICE detainer subjects across the bridge where there just happen to be ICE officers taking in the scenery. They are ready for a fight.
The WV establishment wasn't exactly kosher per the Constitution. Virginia had seceded and thus was no long a state of the US, though Lincoln always maintained that secession wasn't valid. So an assembly of the counties declared themselves to be the Virginia legislature and approved the change, the reconvened as the WV legislature and gave the other approval. This particular tactic wouldn't work here but it does show the value of creativity. Perhaps the Feds could invoke the guarantee clause and intervene. Constitution is silent on a process and this is Article IV so not assigned to any branch.
The depicted map of the United States is complicated. A CW2 will be logistical battles which is true of most wars. On one hand, the red areas look as if they have the blue areas hemmed in. But the bluish states will likely control major ports where supplies and reinforcements (aka red enemies) can enter.
The red states will have the majority of skilled individuals that can maintain equipment, control vast terrain and localized food resources. The blues will likely import technicians and necessities from abroad.
The red areas adjacent to blue areas will have to take control quickly. Otherwise, I see a quick stalemate and the balkanization of the country. If that happens, the reds better have control of a few seaports, or they will be the people hemmed in.
I first heard about this and Matt on the Prepping 2.0 Podcast a few years ago. This piece among other factors helped inform my decision to GTFO, AKA COOHMP.
PS Buy Matt's books, you will not be sorry!
Things are quiet because recon work is going on. The vast majority of blacks have been duped yet again but they have been promised everything white people own. Coupled with the Muslim and Hispanic populations, only the most prepared and clever white people will survive. Rich or poor, rural or urban. Don’t forget about the fact that white people have been turned into self loathing virtue signaling enemies of their own race. They will help find you and kill you!
I have heard you give this information before and this essay was great. It's absolutely true. Since RFK Jr., has been sworn in and the video and imagery from that moment in the WH went past my eyes, I considered something to which I have been trying to put into words in an attempt to identify the significance. There is something you might be able to use or if you can, take your own swing at it.
The image was of RFK Jr., taking his oath of office and giving his short acceptance speech under that huge portrait of Reagan and the camera panning back to encompass Trump and Rand Paul. What about that picture is significant and ad Tulsi Gabert in that as well. Perhaps even JD Vance as a former Trump hater. What is the curious thread and what might it reflect in the US Citizenry (not including those who haven't been shipped out or left on their own yet)? Reagan, Trump, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabert and probably a few more, were or are "former Democrats" who now work for Trump 2.0. Maybe Elon was a big player in the DNC? Aren't former smokers the worst around smoke?
In the past few years, outside the Beltway, I have found many people who don't look alike or pray alike, have come to the conclusion that a change had to be made. Is that enough to keep the guerilla war from kicking off? Only time will tell. I hope we can get lucky and all of us ride these coming financial ups and downs together. That is what I worry about here in the UNited States.
My position still, is that we need to remake local and state governments, now more than ever.
Excellent writing and perfect assessment as always sir!
Yours in liberty,
Vince Agnelli
Thanks. I'm just reading this today, and your comments about the former Dems coming over to Trump really rings the bell:
Conspiracy Theorists Were Right About Everything – Now What?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/conspiracy-theorists-were-right-about-everything-now-what
and here is the lesson Mason and Jefferson tried use but "We the People" screwed the pooch (from that great zero hedge article you sent)
"The Most Dangerous Time Is When You Think You Are Winning
Establishment elites are like vampires. In fact, I suspect the whole mythology of vampires from centuries ago is actually based on the very real and evil crimes of the elites of the past. They use their wealth and influence to gain a foothold in your country, city or village. They use subterfuge to gain trust and exert authority. They spread darkness and corruption like a cancer, then they feed on the population at will while pretending to be benevolent leaders.
But these parasites must be invited in by the people. The public has to, in some ways, give consent to their own victimization. We have to willfully ignore their activities; our apathy is seen as consent. Sunlight is the primary remedy and the vampires flee when it’s unleashed. Finally, if all else fails a stake through the heart is required to end them. It could be a proverbial stake, or a very real one.
Audits of the corrupt system are the sunlight. Independent patriot rebellion is the stake through the heart if all else fails.
Just because the evil is exposed does not necessarily mean it will stop or disappear. Often these cornered creatures fight even harder and their mission is to take you down with them. Great truth often precedes the darkest of days and the collapse of epochs. As the shadow government faces uncertainty for perhaps the first time ever, who knows how the leviathan will react?"
There are other items I'm re-reading, looking for things to use on my other substack pages. I know you know the story of Nathaniel Bacon from 1676 and the "Bacon Rebellion". I think what we see with Trump today, mirrors what happened then, up to a point. However, our story is far from over. We may yet end up in violence as you've spoken to. That was the lesson Mason and Jefferson learned from Bacon in their attempt to not revolt with guns first but lead with paper. History shows, that didn't work either. You concerns are most valid Matt!
Vince
I think about it too Vince. Personally that’s what happened I am fine with it. Had the status quo carried forward we had 2 years at best until major SHTF calamity called. Not served in the military or LE but have been in enough violent encounters to understand it. A serious person like Putin had to have been thinking. Hit them before they hit me.
It’s very possible after Russia refused to yield some people with some brains said we have to STOP. We have to stop the push to WW3. We have to stop the push to collapse the nation.
Its interesting to ponder.
I don't mind it either. It had to be done. My position was always the people should have the sense to see they've had the power all long. It is interesting that all of the open-ended powers usurped from the Constitution since the day it began being used (notice I didn't say followed-LOL) have always been used to enlarge the powers of Government. The other day, I pointed to the usurpations of Marbury v Madison and Martin (Heir of Fairfax) v Hunter's Lessee were how the Judiciary grabbed huge amounts of power, even though Congress tried to settle it with "legislation" but found out it was another branch to which even Congress has limited powers.
I know a lot of smart people. I have known a lot of military officers and agency directors from my youth and my career. I have no doubt, that all of those who are gone now, would have never suspected what we find with DOGE.
Honestly, I think we had two years before somebody would hoist a flag over parts of our nation and declare those places belonged to somebody else.
We must guard against reversals Luke. Like a tsunami, they will charge back at us.
We must also take Matt's warning seriously. Heads on a swivel now and for a long time.
Luke, it looks as though the expected move is already underway...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD_48Pd-o_c
Thanks Vince, will watch soon.
Listening now, wanted to see if you saw my other comment on this post about blacks. I think it’s the most likely scenario and why we have seen no leftist violence.
Poplar Report huh, sounds like a rational dude. Hmm X is banning Signal links. That’s interesting as hell.
My mind often drifts. No doubt in my mind TPTB were leading us to hell. “You will own nothing.” “It will be a very angry world.” Two statements from Klaus Schwab foreshadowing just where this was all heading.
When he said that in 2021 it alerted me that we don’t go from “this” (current status with asset ownership) to “that” (own nothing) without a shitload of chaos. I suspect Klaus and friends took Russia to be a pushover. The sanctions and bloody conflict would easily end them.
So after that plan failed what to do? They have been setting up a crash of society. I think many of them got scared perhaps and threw the hot potato to Trump. Sort of a Hail Mary if you will.
Just a theory, I am ultimately glad they did if that’s what indeed happened.
I have a few things on my own. I have been trying to show people for years that we have been driven by the Royal families because they want their stuff back. That can be really difficult to separate from. I hope it happens.
I think a lot of people have missed what has happened. I caught wind of it in October after leaning Trump was at a campaign rally in Detroit. When I heard that he was going to NYC Madison SG I had to ask myself how in the hell is he doing these types of events? I think everyone will agree both forums were Off Limits in 2016/20. All hell would have broken loose.
What I suspect has happened is the Dems most reliable and violent shock troops are in limbo. I am talking about American Blacks. Look how effectively the left could manipulate and control them to be excessively violent. Every encounter since Rodney King grew more ridiculous and more dangerous. However, I would be full of shit if I told you their riots didn’t work. They were extremely effective at sowing political terror.
I attribute this to the Lefts behavior last several years; particularly with illegal immigration. Imagine voting D your entire life to learn the new comers were getting spoiled with EBT and luxury hotels. Lol that had to have left a mark. There were plenty of sound bytes where the black community was angered by these actions.
So effectively the Dems sold off their best shock troops in exchange for migrants. Let’s call it Poetic Justice. People on the right keep asking the question “Where is the left? Why are they behaving?” Well that’s my answer.
I think it’s important we understand because if we don’t appreciate what happened it could potentially relapse. I think it is also good to remind blacks WHO sold them out after being so loyal. So that’s why we have seen peace in recent days.
I am NOT saying that peace will hold. But If the right is clever it just might.
Matt great read as always. Have you ever read or heard about the book “Civil War II: The Coming Breakup of America” by Thomas W. Chittum?
Interview with Thomas:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iV4wRkFsbvA
Digital copy:
https://archive.org/details/CivilWar2_201804/page/n4/mode/1up
He was a war junky and served in Vietnam, Rhodesia, and i believe on the Croatian side of the Yugoslavian war. He came to the same conclusion after realizing all these conflicts were ethnic in nature and analyzed the USA under ethnic fault lines.
Read enemies foreign and domestic while on the 31st (30 worst) MEU and appreciate your writings and a cure to the boredom.
Ive tried to also warn friends and family to relocate to areas with the same demographics and views as them but they just see me as some burned out Recondo. Such is the curse of Cassandra.
Is the USA heading for a second Civil War?
https://youtu.be/Yilgr2SJ3xQ?si=070FbKnYIjMm14xR
From last year.....:
POLITICALsteria: Best Civil War Memes
What a Civil War would look like, it might be brief (one side doesn't know what bathroom to use), Neocons can't decide (WW3 or CW?) & more Civil War memes as Hollywood releases a Civil War 2 movie!
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/politicalsteria-best-civil-war-memes
I think this paragraph sums up the logic behind the cabal’s strategy:
“Nobody who is sane and has studied modern civil wars… would ever want to see this happen.”
1. Open with a Russia hoax.
2. Make everything about national security (classification severely limits who can participate in the process).
3. Threaten to use UN to distribute the peace (after making arrangements with the UN).
4. Keep clamping down on a society’s rights, highlighting pushback as justification to keep going.
5. Censor the conversation over what actions call for action against a government. (They pretend that nothing justifies removal by force.)
Unfortunately, I have participated in the civil war in former Yugoslavia as a combatant. Once a beautiful country, an oasis of peace, freedom and brotherly love, took only a few years to become a brutal and viscous battleground.
Of course, it would never happen if there were no foreign influence and foreign intelligence services actively working to bring to power and later support nationalist leaders and political parties. After that, only a spark was sufficient to ignite it.
I will not try to elaborate who started first, etc, because it would be a very long essay, but I pray that you, Americans do everything in your power to avoid it.
However, I can see that you are very close to meeting all the necessary preconditions. Then, a spark will be all that is needed….
My concern is I live in the cauldron of the Pacific Northwest and my state is going Jefferson Davies .
My governor of Washington State Ferguson has long been a Left wing bully . There are three bills heading for Ferguson's desk that are in open opposition to Trump. He may back down but Nick Brown our AG will not .
On our northern border Canada and China are doing war drills together and the British Columbia Premier Ebby is farther left than Ferguson . I live between Portland Oregon and Seattle Washington and this corridor would welcome Chinese troops streaming in from Canada. China does not need a beach head they have British Columbia.
Thanks for the review, Matt. Somehow, with all the revelations of the past several weeks, there's a sense that Trump is kindling hope, and actions, that lead to a new path.
Dems appear stunned and disorganized, falling back on old tactics to stall the momentum. Perhaps they have been so demoralized that they never recover. Or their aged leaders aren't up for a renewed fight. Or maybe if their funding dries up, their antics fail, too. Martin Armstrong has said for years that the Dem party dissolves after this election.
But for CW2, are we talking about something organic, the product of simmering resentments on the horizontal populace level? Or will CW2 be a vertical top-down engineered effort? I'd like to think the Trump effect blunts both possibilities -- as more of the simmering populace recognizes that their problems don't come from their other race/income neighbors, but from the manipulators in govt.
I think the Dems believed their own propaganda, so they were not prepared for reality. Many just don’t know anyone from fly over country or conservative.
I have devoted a great deal more thought to peaceful partition than to CW2 but some of the same dynamics apply. The Great Sort is a real thing at least along ideological lines and your warning about not being left behind enemy lines applies even with no war. Crime, educational dysfunction and social isolation are no fun. Your fish graphic also applies since a number of otherwise rural conservative states are politically controlled by a Big Blue City. There a mechanism to fix this before the war starts by changing state boundaries if the will exists. Otherwise the boundaries will be the ceasefire lines.
Some exceptions here in the West deserve more attention. First, Indians. Poor, dark and rural and they control a lot of land far from metro areas. How much cohesion will they have and how will they interact with their while and Hispanic neighbors. Lots of whites live on the rez and could be an example of your caution about people being pressured to turn on their neighbors. A few years back some long term leases on Apache land expired and the tribe took the land back. Lots of expensive homes got burned down. Second, Mormons. Rich, white and rural based though probably a majority are urban. Very cohesive and very prepared. In a partition, I can imagine an independent Deseret. More so in a war. Finally, rich white and urban with "vacation homes " among poor rural whites. You see that a lot in PNW. Lots of tension about culture, resources and ideology. My advice to them is to join the gun club, a church, the volunteer fire department, local Elks or whatever, and the Republican Party. Form marriage alliances. Blend or be behind enemy lines which is bad in a partition and worse in a war. It is also going to suck to be rich, white and urban.
If I understand it correctly Oregon and Idaho are working on changing boundaries to make part of Oregon (the part without all the commies) Greater Idaho.
Indiana's legislature has approved the idea of taking a couple of dozen central and south eastern Illinois counties under the same boundary change idea. Thus far 34 of Illinois' 102 counties have voted to leave or form a new state.
Correct about Idaho. Don't know about IN. There are a lot more movements out there but no one seems to have the momentum of Greater Idaho. I have long maintained that the leftists in the cities want to be rid of us as much as we want to be rid of them. People in the rural areas need to ramp it up. Trick at the Federal level will to be not to upset the balance of power. So a new Missouri Compromise.
The boundary change appears to be the cleanest legal way to do it. It would just require both states to agree to a boundary change. There would be no change in the number of states, number of US Senators etc. Both states would I assume have to do a congressional reapportionment. Illinois will undoubtedly oppose the wishes of its citizens as it always does because the 34 counties which I believe would likely wind up being 40-50 with a lot on the west side wanting to attach to Iowa or Missouri. MO would likely not want to have to take the shit sandwich called East St. Louis but who knows? Illinois will not want to be left as a rump entity with no industry, dominated by communist public unions and semi-literate urbanites. With the crazy tax demands, gun grabbing, crackpot environmental regs, EV mandates, the entire conservative litany of lib stupidity, it may at some point get down to blocking the highways at county lines to get them to either change their ways or negotiate with Indiana and Iowa. Most Sheriffs would probably fall in line with this as they are sickened by the lawless filth running wild because of Pritzker's "Safety Act" which allows felons to walk with no bail for everything and this Sanctuary State crap which allows illegals to run wild. Some of these guys have even found ways to "drop off" ICE detainer subjects across the bridge where there just happen to be ICE officers taking in the scenery. They are ready for a fight.
The WV establishment wasn't exactly kosher per the Constitution. Virginia had seceded and thus was no long a state of the US, though Lincoln always maintained that secession wasn't valid. So an assembly of the counties declared themselves to be the Virginia legislature and approved the change, the reconvened as the WV legislature and gave the other approval. This particular tactic wouldn't work here but it does show the value of creativity. Perhaps the Feds could invoke the guarantee clause and intervene. Constitution is silent on a process and this is Article IV so not assigned to any branch.
I have referred people to it many times over the years
The depicted map of the United States is complicated. A CW2 will be logistical battles which is true of most wars. On one hand, the red areas look as if they have the blue areas hemmed in. But the bluish states will likely control major ports where supplies and reinforcements (aka red enemies) can enter.
The red states will have the majority of skilled individuals that can maintain equipment, control vast terrain and localized food resources. The blues will likely import technicians and necessities from abroad.
The red areas adjacent to blue areas will have to take control quickly. Otherwise, I see a quick stalemate and the balkanization of the country. If that happens, the reds better have control of a few seaports, or they will be the people hemmed in.
You may find this interesting. The space between "knowing and not knowing". https://www.facebook.com/share/r/152oKtWHeR/?mibextid=D5vuiz
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