If war is necessary, we will be called upon and led by someone with experience who understands its costs, not by some nameless angry people who can't keep a cool head.
We all want the traitors to pay, but it's not time for the fourth box yet. Train. Lift. Run. Do what you have to in order to get your emotions in check.
But understand this: You aren't ready and neither are we. Your impulsiveness will get you and others killed. Let the legal process play out and wait for the call. If it's necessary, it will come, and we will answer.
Nonsense! Have you even studied military history?? Civil war does not result in civil collapse, otherwise troops on both sides would've starved long before they ever began to score victories. It doesn't mean civil collapse now, either. Infrastructure, transportation and food distribution are still critical unless one is deliberately aiming at genocide. People have to be fed, housed and clothed if they are to fight.
We have better technology than 19th c. combattants; they had better technology than 18th c. combattants; who, in their turn, had better technology than 17th c. combattants. Changing technology does not mean changing strategy, tactics, logistics, or even the human intellect. If that were the case, there'd be absolutely no use to studying the the Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, the 100 Years' War, the Punic Wars, or even the Persian Wars at war colleges today, which they do, intensively. There'd be no sense in our continuing regard for military manuals like Sun Tzu's Art of War, because it would simply be a curious relic.
I understand if you're frightened by the prospect of war, but think of it as diplomacy by other means. All it proves is that the combattants are serious enough to press their claims beyond the endless talk, talk, talk-stage of negotiation.
Yes, I've studied all kinds of history. You don't seem to understand how things work now, today in the 21st century, and think you can explain away 150 years of difference by rattling off a bunch of nouns.
Have you studied anything besides military history?
"Oh, well, you must be frightened then."
I take it you're some armchair warrior whose never seen actual violence. What a joke.
I'm not sure I understand where all your hostility and condescension is coming from. We have a difference of opinion on the the nature of warfare and its applicability to the US right now as our rights are being trampled openly, brazenly, right before our eyes.
If you would prefer to roll over and go back to sleep, and hope the left will somehow leave you alone, after being thus emboldened by your inaction, I wish you good luck. You'll need it. As for me, I'm in my 60s. I've lived in socialist shitholes. I've witnessed public hangings by brutalist states.
I've travelled extensively throughout the Iron Curtain countries and in the Soviet Union. And I'm here to tell you I'd rather die than endure the twilight wraithdom that comes with being a thrall of a communist dictatorship. No life thus lived has any meaning; it's one stripped of all it's dignity and humanity. You see the mask mandates--that's the least of what they have planned.
I would rather die, and I will take as many of them with me as I go...and I have had decades to think about it.
My hostility and condescension stems from observing people calling for violence when they have zero idea what's involved or what the consequences will be. It stems from humans who claim great knowledge and experience taking the child-like binary perception that you can only fight, or forever be enslaved. It stems from grown adults having all this time to gain perspective, and having none.
There won't be any "communist dictatorship." Most people posting on this site have already sacrificed dignity and humanity for feudal corporate serfdom. They console themselves that they'll send their kids to college, or provide themselves new toys, or be able to afford comfort.
You, and way too many others here, seem to think that tyranny can only take one form. That it's incapable of being insidious, or subtle, or even comfortable.
"A gilded, gold cage is still a prison, bobf!"
Are you sure? Maybe the prison is in our minds. Thank goodness there are heroes, such as yourself, ready to lay down their lives and what limited time they have left in this reality for things they barely understand.