Archived College biker gang mess with the wrong country folk (youtube.com)
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Archived College biker gang mess with the wrong country folk (youtube.com)
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[–] Broc_Lia ago
That scenario still seems to be envisioning conventional warfare with well defined fronts and area denial. The farmers wouldn't stop shipping food into the cities, not most of them anyhow. And if they tried the feds would have the clout to institute emergency measures and seize whatever grain silos they needed to. Some of the soldiers might feel bad about it, but most of them would very quickly turn us vs. them when they started getting shot at.
I'd see things as being more like a scenario where there's areas of the country where the feds can no longer travel or live with impunity. They can patrol in force and take minimum casualties, they can set up heavily armed FOBs, but they can never think of doing something like sending the FBI to arrest someone, or sending out FDA inspectors to farms.
The exhaustion wouldn't come from starvation, more from demoralisation and people stopping signing up for a war with no victories. Also, americans would be pretty poor by that point because of all the economic inefficiencies created by the conflict.
[–] whitedogofpyr ago
The IEDs would be the main issue. Can't transport the food if the roads keep exploding. No food = city riots. City riots = cops flee to their homes. Cops flee to their homes = no law and order. No law and order = no government. No government = libertarian paradise... for a time. That's the basic idea anyway.
[–] Broc_Lia ago
The US is full of roads though, and they won't know which ones they're using in advance. Also, IEDs take time to make/rig and someone has to man the thing to make sure it doesn't get tripped by a schoolbus or something. They could cause a bit of chaos and send a very clear message, but it would take millions of people to fully shut down food distribution routes. If they had those numbers they could just fight a conventional war.