You said that the Russian Federation is one of the last conservative nations left on Earth.
It's not.
I explained why it's not.
So, either that was your point, or...
Your point was that the Russian Federation is NOT an enemy of the American government? That it WOULDN"T attack the CONUS if given half an opportunity?
Well, that, too, is wrong.
Russian Tu-95s get intercepted in our airspace with frightening regularity. Putin hired former Spetsnaz working for the Wagner Group to attack a SOCOM command post in Raqqa, Syria. Ransomware attacks. Etc. Etc.
And what was your point, if you had one?
President Trump has been handed the justifications for the suspension of Habeas soooooooo many times in 2020 and 2021.
Coordinated, nationwide attacks on federal personnel, property, and critical infrastructure. Social media- the publicly traded guys- were involved in coordinating, glorifying, and funding the attacks. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a literal non-profit w/ federal tax exemptions that sent donations to Act Blue.
In places like Portland, OR, people were moving across state borders, using federal roads. In Seattle, JBLM (which houses some of the nation's special forces) was threatened. Etc. Etc.
All this in the middle of a stated pandemic. The whole idea has been that the China virus is dangerous to public health. So, when these attacks brazenly defied federal guidelines and mandates to protect public health and safety...
Even the events of January 6th could be a prime justification.
If Trump doesn't invoke martial law- not just the IA, but full-on suspension of Habeas Corpus- the union is probably doomed. And the fall could occur much faster and more dramatically than what was seen in Venezuela. Parler went down in a day, effectively. (Though I highly doubt that level of collusion occurred spontaneously- you don't just ban an entire site in what a third-grader could tell you is textbook anti-trust violations over a few conference calls).
Having 24 states pretty firmly in GOP hands won't help. RINOs, etc. Having key battleground state legislatures in GOP hands help- Republicans had PA, GA, et seq in 2020. Fraud in one city or county can obviate all that. A supposedly conservative Supreme Court- especially one headed by Roberts- won't help. Dozens of Trump-appointed judges on various federal benches won't help.
And, truth be told, 78 million patriots with guns and jobs and farms won't help, either. It's definitely a good thing, and could be a very effective deterrent, but, like military matters, you have to make the threat credible.
You COULD build a very solid foundation just on Texas alone. With roughly half the country ready to stand with Texas, even better. And, the truth is, the left coast would be physically separated from the east, with very robust insurgencies in nocal, eastern OR/WA, etc.
All that said, harnessing that anger and turning it into an effective, modern fighting force capable of launching MOUT in cities with skyscrapers, all while managing complex logistical and economic means...
Parler got shut down in a day.
You want secession, you need not just an entirely new internet and communications infrastructure, but also an entirely new economy, judicial system, political system...
And Texas alone would have to fight insurgencies in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso... all while being blockaded and having the insurgents reinforced by the cartels. Not an easy proposition. Yes, the Texas boys would win in a fair fight. But there's nothing about fighting that is fair. Something Democrats understand far better than Republicans.
Best case is we slow the inevitable.
At this point, Dems can torch a courthouse, then get bailed out with tax-exempt before the night is out.
That's not something you just vote away.
Iran is conservative af.
So is the PRC, really.
After several years studying Mandarin, I can say with absolute confidence that the Chinese are some of the most racist people in the world. They're very much about maintaining customs and all that.
Just because they're not on the approved GOP roster doesn't mean they're not "conservative." Maybe not conservative in the sense of strong private property rights or their willingness to help our defense apparatus... which, of course, wouldn't be that conservative, anyway. You probably don't want the PRC stationing troops in our territory. And we know why. It represents a threat to us. It diminishes our strength and culture.
The whole idea of destroying people's culture to defeat them while minimizing military losses is not new. It's not even new for the neo-Maoists in American government- and they've been at it, slavering for this very day for over a century. The Romans perfected it. But the Grecians did it. It was done among the tribes in Africa. Sun Tzu wrote about it. Before a unified Italy, it was done there- Clausewitz wrote about it.
Our government did it for a very long time to the ethnic Han, or Chinese people. FDR's grandpa sold heroin for a living, for all intents and purposes. And he sold it to the Chinese. The elder Bushes profited from slave labor in Nazi Germany while we worked with the Soviets to craft plans to divide essentially every modern nation-state by ethnic or religious differences. India/Pakistan, Israel/"Palestineans," Eritrea/Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, India/Pakistan, China/Japan, Burmese divisions, Indonesian divisions...
Look, the point is, the Russian Federation isn't one of the last conservative nation-states.
It's just one of the last nation-states with leadership you agree with (which is ironic, since Putin is in deep with drugs and probably child trafficking and is literally a former commie who centrally plans his economy).
Not sure what's meant by conservative.
Nearly a hundred countries will give you the death penalty for homosexuality. Religion and birth rates are among their highest in Africa.
If, by conservative, you mean tribalistic and dedicated to preserving the established customs, traditions, language, territory, and social order... Look, that's a human default.
The question, then, is what to do now.
The PRC is much more likely to nuke Taiwan.
Or use NK to attack our guys in the ROK.
Great comment.
I just wanted to add that Alabama and George Mason University are pretty much the only two conservative law schools that are worth a shit who didn't have law school deans sign the letter virtue signaling their attack on election integrity efforts.
(For context, almost every law school dean in the country- including deans for BYU, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio Northern, Arizona, Arizona State, etc.- signed an open letter basically condemning the 2020 election lawsuits, but with vague enough lawyer language that they can deny actually condemning basically anything)
Case Western Reserve University- by no means a "conservative" school was pretty much the only other notable institution to not sign on. Which is even more remarkable, considering their very clear social justice commitments. THE Ohio State signed on. So, they're going to take some real flak for that stance. But I hope it does turning out to be a good business decision.
I remark on this because the lawsuits WERE valid. They DID have evidence- and lots of it.
Yes, most of the cases have been dismissed. But many on specious procedural grounds, etc. Almost none were decided on their actual merits... because no one outside of this site actually wants to discuss those merits.
Because those merits expose the reality that the ruling elites are absolutely evil and that democracy has always been an absolute sham.
Either way, conservatives need to send their kids to college. But the "right" colleges. As long as we're still using words and institutions and the appearance of integrity to wage war, as long as we're in an age of bribing people into compliance with state aims, the only real power, the only effective weapons... they're degrees and occupational licenses.
So, if we want lawyers to continue to fight the good fight in the near-future, we need to know which law schools will allow them to thrive.
And, again, not all "conservative" schools will. Wyoming signed off on that letter, too. Even with their 150ish medians.