Remember that Mel Gibson period-piece film, The Patriot, which actually was a rather good, if somewhat inaccurate, stylised portrayal of the battle for American independence in the southern colonies?

Do y’all remember that scene where the colonial Congress of South Carolina debated passing a resolution for a Continental Army levee in order to declare war on the British Empire and claim independence for an American nation?

And do you remember what Mel Gibson’s character, retired Captain Benjamin Martin, said during that debate, about the horrors of an impending war with Britain?

The reason why I bring this up is because of an article over at RT.com that caught my eye the other day. It was written by a Serbian named Nebojša Malić, who may or may not be an ardent defender of Serbian nationalist atrocities during the fratricidal Balkans conflict of the 1990s, and talks about how the coming civil war in the USA is being treated as though it’s all just a big larf:

Critics have reacted to President Donald Trump’s Twitter warning about his impeachment causing a civil war with both shrieks of outrage and jokes. Notably absent: any self-awareness of such a war would be like or how to avoid it.

“If the Democrats are successful in removing the president from office, I’m afraid it will cause a Civil War-like fracture in this nation from which this country will never heal,” Texas televangelist Robert Jeffress said Sunday night on Fox News. Trump quoted him in a tweet the next morning, and Twitter lost its collective mind.

The typical response was to accuse Trump of calling for a new civil war, mind-reading what he must have really meant by the quote. He was “priming his base” to think of war, according to unnamed “experts of fascism,”a liberal comedian argued in just one example.

Others dismissed the very notion of a civil war as crazy, joking about bringing the potato salad and biodegradable forks – or hamberders and covfefe – to the fight, as soon as they get out of yoga class, using the hashtag #CivilWarSignup.

There were also scornful takes about Americans being too fat to fight, or rural Americans being too scared to “take the subway in New York or drive in Los Angeles,” much less take a rifle and “take their country back from elite urbanites.”

It’s unclear whether the people joking about bringing food to the fight were deliberately channeling the spirit of Washingtonians who turned out to the first Battle of Manassas/Bull Run, in June 1861, as if it were a picnic, bringing baskets and blankets to enjoy the show.

As anyone who’s studied that era of US history knows, their glee quickly turned to horror and panic, when the Union army lost – and they found themselves shoved aside on crowded roads leading back to Washington by the routed troops in blue. 

Wars never go as planned. No plan survives first contact with the enemy, who also gets a vote. If there is one ironclad rule of war through the ages, no matter the level of technology, that is it. Yet the corollary is that civilians always forget about it, and it comes back to bite them.

Say what you will about RT.com and its writers – I happen to read them regularly, because I am so sick and tired of the bullshit spewed by “objective” news (((media))) in the US and the UK and I happen to like the Russian point of view on a wide range of things. The fact is that this chap is right about the nature of the coming war.

If you ask ten different people in the USA, you’ll probably get roughly ten different opinions on whether a war will happen in the first place.

Talk to anyone from the Pantifags, and they’ll tell you that they are at war already.

Talk to anyone from the urban islands of the Clinton Archipelago, and they’ll tell you that they haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.

Talk to anyone from Trumpland, and they’ll tell you that they are looking forward to beating their opponents – in the upcoming elections.

Talk to a conservative, and he’ll likely cuck and tell you that “we need accommodation, dialogue, and bipartisanship to preserve the Constitution and the great liberties of our nation!”.

Talk to a progressive, and he’ll probably get triggered and run away and hide.

No matter where you go, though, you will be forced to confront a fundamental unseriousness about the fact that the United States is fracturing into distinct polities already.

The people who are taking the threat of the Balkanisation of the United States seriously, are the ones regularly dismissed as kooks and cranks. A few of them read this blog, and I am proud to be lumped in among those “nutcases” who believe that war is not only inevitable, but necessary at this point.

That does not mean that I want a war.

A new “War Between the States”, so to speak, in the USA today will not be clean or easy. It will be horrific, brutal, nightmarish, and wantonly destructive on a scale that we have never witnessed before in all of human history.

That war will pit neighbour against neighbour, father against son, brother against brother, city against suburb, heartland against coast, and Federal employees against State and local ones. Entire cities are likely to become free-fire zones with full-force “libertarianism” of the kind that you see active in Mogadishu these days.

All of this is inevitable. It cannot be escaped. You cannot import over 100 MILLION immigrants over the course of 50 years – the single largest mass migration of people in recorded history that I know of – into a country of roughly 330 million, and expect that there will be no consequences. Those 100 million-odd people are not, and never were, Americans.

The American Constitution, way of life, social compact, and spirit is unique. It was created by the descendants of the original English and Dutch Protestant settlers who came over to forge a home for themselves out of a vast and untamed wilderness.

Yet, within a hundred years, the Constitution was already plainly being ignored and spat upon. It was already proving insufficient to deal with the large numbers of Italians, Swedes, Finns, Germans, and other continental Europeans who came over to settle in the USA. Those Europeans still have not become small-government individual-rights types, by and large (though there are exceptions). And that is with over 100 years of assimilation and acculturation.

If five generations’ worth of assimilation cannot turn a big-government, Big Society European into a small-government minarchist freedom-loving gun nut, then how, exactly, is the Magic Dirt of America going to turn Indians and Chinese and Hispanics and Africans, all of whom come from radically different traditions, cultures, faiths, and ways of life, into the same?

The answer is that it is not possible.

Add to this the fact that many of these newer cultures have a level of familiarity and comfort with lethal violence and mob rule that most Americans simply cannot conceive of, and you have an inevitable shitstorm forming.

Consider Indians, for instance. Many of them are likable enough, in their native lands. Indians are friendly, welcoming, happy, and generally easy enough to get along with – provided you can deal with the realities of being in India, which is crowded, noisy, smelly, polluted, hot, humid, and generally quite unpleasant for 8 out of every 12 months.

India is very roughly 80% Hindu with a Muslim population of about 14%, and the other 6% or so being Buddhists, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, and so on and so forth. Now, India has a long and very traumatic history with Islam – it was conquered by Turco-Mongol-Afghani Muslims who exhibited the classic Islamic binary governing philosophy over the life of the Mughal Empire. That is to say, the Mughals alternated between periods of “moderation and tolerance”, and periods of “f***ing nutballs in charge”.

Now, given the extreme linguistic, religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity of India – and it is diverse, don’t ever let anyone tell you differently – how do you suppose the Hindu Indians deal with the fact that a large chunk of their population holds views that are directly antithetical to their own, and eat animals that Hindus consider sacred?

Simple. Anytime the native Muslims misbehave, they get massacred or lynched.

Can you imagine Americans acting that way?

I didn’t think so.

But they will, whether you and I like it or not. It will simply take enough shearing stress upon the fabric of the nation – and multiple such stresses are already showing up in American society.

In my view, the likely outcome, which I have explicated before in these pages, is that the USA will break apart into several distinct nations in a fratricidal war to the death. This is NOT an outcome that I want, and it is NOT an outcome that anyone in his right mind should look forward to or joke about.

We have already seen various examples over the past seventy years of what can happen when ethnic, religious, and cultural tensions reach their natural and logical endpoints. Whether we are talking about the Balkan conflicts, the Rwandan Genocide, or the Partition of India, the results have always been brutal, bloody, and horrifying – and far, far worse than anyone ever anticipated.

Already we are seeing the fissures forming, and already the more sensible among the conservatives are realising that there is no accommodation to be had with the Left. There is no point in trying to seek it because the Left itself does not want it, and increasingly the Right is coming to the same conclusion.

Now multiply that narrative a few tens of million times, and you will get a feel for the level of simmering hatred and even outright rage across the USA and much of the Western world right now.

It is clear that the West is failing, brought low by its own suicidal and stupid policies. What comes afterward will almost surely be better, by far – because we are likely to see a great reawakening, a rediscovery of the pillars of Western civilisation, and a commitment to preserving the same.

But I shudder to think about what will happen between now and then.