I’ve written before about the ongoing series of conversations between radio host John Batchelor and war historian Michael Vlahos about America’s present-day run-up to a third civil war.
Mr. Batchelor is convalescing at the moment (get well soon, sir!), and has been running archived material for the last couple of weeks. Professor Vlahos, though, has just published a substantial essay on this worrisome topic. It covers much of what he and Mr. Batchelor have discussed in these last months. Read it here.
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Much of this ongoing ‘civil war’ is held in our own hands. Twitter as thermostat.
https://mailchi.mp/uchicago/sightings-215289?e=0acf7ba7ae
Thanks for this on JB, I was worrying the two sites I’ve bookmarked wasn’t enough.
A sobering essay. I appreciate Vlahos’ point that we’re unlikely to enter civil war militarily (although who knows?). The pendulum tends not to swing back. Rather history will repeat itself here featuring new dimensions, probably with the U.S. becoming plagued with endless divisions nationally and locally, the country regressing into a sort of really wealthy Brazil. I hope not, but that’s where the signs do seem to point.