CIVIL WAR:...Russians Want It...Texas Teasing It...MAGA Arms Itself...Governors Plot Allegiance...Mexican Border May Be The Spark...

 

By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas |...Well, the Russians are for it. Out front and being quoted. They want a civil war in America. For one, the Ruskies say it would immediately bring an end to their war in Ukraine. Europe fears a Donald Trump victory in the upcoming national election would place it in a vulnerable position, one then open to Russian invasion of member NATO countries.

Yes, that could easily come to pass.

Same for an end to our monstrous national debt, our social programs including Social Security and an end to most of our civil liberties.

That's what border-fearing Texas is offering these days?

The Lone Star State is playing fast and loose with talk of secession and, of course, the federal government would never abide by such action. Not for one second. Talk, we know, comes cheap in politics. Perhaps that's all Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is doing - talking shit.

He'd never secede. The financial wallop, if it ever happened, would be so extreme as to make Texas just another poor neighbor of Mexico. In the Guatemala, Honduras class, yeah. Beaten Austin would then export is winning catchphrase to, well, "Keep Tegucigalpa weird." 

But the Russians, friends of Trump from way back, see it coming.

This from newsweek.com: [ . . .Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who currently serves as the Deputy Chair of Russia's Security Council, released a lengthy statement on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday reiterating his past prediction that Texas would secede from the rest of the U.S., something the state has no legal ability to do, and potentially kickstart a civil war.

"There are known cases in history when some states tried to break away from the Union and form the Confederacy," Medvedev wrote. "The end result was the bloody civil war which cost thousands upon thousands of lives. Either way, America can face an unsolvable constitutional crisis, and for long, fall into the abyss of a new, possibly even more destructive civil confrontation. And the Western world, its breath held, will be staring at the American mess in fear. Well, it's their problem, anyway."

Responding to an inquiry, the U.S. Department of State dismissed on Saturday the seriousness of Medvedev's various statements.

"We know by now not to take Medvedev seriously," a department spokesperson wrote. "This is standard Kremlin nonsense." ]

Everything wild is nonsense until it happens. Russians might even be comforted by knowing that there are some (MAGA) Americans who would take to the streets to kill at the drop of a projection that Trump will lose the General Election in November.

Chew on that for a minute.

You know that's true. You know you've read and heard about it. These are not good times for American civility and an internal war does look like the answer to resolve these problems in the here & now. What's a few million less citizens. The elderly would go first and therein would come the millions in savings on Social Security payouts.

What would the federal government do about is 15 active military bases in Texas, the ones that contribute some $100 billion to the state's economy. Would, as some are saying, Texas storm the bases with its weekend warrior Texas National Guard and commandeer weapons?

And what would McDonald's do at war's breakout? Chase Bank? City Hall in your hometown? Public schools and colleges? Trash collection? Mail delivery? Starbucks drive-thru? Laundry service? Grubhub?

Yeah.

Those mischievous Russians are onto something with their wish for a second American Civil War.

We're nowhere near that shots-fired stage yet. Words are being flung around as if off an AR-15, but so far it is just words.

Gov. Abbott keeps talking tough, as if his next move is sending not a bus full of migrants to New York, but a squad of giddy, nerdy National Guardsmen to the U.S. Capitol. It's a comical threat, we say at this point, but we are worried about the 25 other state governors who have publicly said they support Texas in its effort to curb migration at its southern border.

Politics breeds love & hate.

One day, all is cool on the news-brightened campaign trail and the next it is Sherman's March to The Sea. Fighting is fighting. Guns don't kill people; people kill people. And, as we know, there is no more armed citizenry in the world than the American citizen.

The Russians may get what they want...

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