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Cali-Texas and big florida fighting the feds over who gets to be the true Heir of Hitler while the northwest has a Maoist Insurgency lol red-sun

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      6 months ago

      For reference from an actual civil war, here’s a map of Syria’s administrative provinces:

      Here’s the map of controlled territory by factions in 2016, during the height of the civil war:

      You can see that state lines make little difference. It’s more relevant where the oil fields are, the geographical features (rivers, deserts, mountains, etc) & where the population centers are.

      • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        6 months ago

        every US state nominally has an army answerable to its state government. it’s a bit silly to believe these would be 1:1 in an actual civil war, but there’s reason to believe in a higher retention of regional blocs over a free-for-all.

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          14·
          6 months ago

          This is true, and to be fair, the Syrian “civil war” wasn’t really a civil war. Insurgents flooded in from Iraq, Jordan and Turkey en masse which is why the ISIS/Rebel (same thing really) strongholds and territories are along these borders. Foreign governments like US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Turkey all poured billions into various terrorist factions, and shipped in heavy weaponry. Russia, Iran, Hezbollah all got involved on the side of Assad.

    • ComradeEchidna [fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      Definitely I think in the comic DMZ (about a civil war in the USA where Manhattan was a demilitarised zone) when they did show the USA. There was parts that rump USA government clearly held, and much smaller pockets of rebel strongholds, but wide swathes of crosshatched maps where rebels moved with impunity and the rump government had to move around in armoured military patrols. There’s a bit where a journalist is taken blindfolded down some Appalachian backroads and meets a significant rebel commander just chillin’ in a trailer in the woods.

      I gave up on the Handmaid’s tale around season 2. But I liked when they showed the map of the USA, Gilead claimed all the 48 contiguous states (with the rump Government in Exile holding Alaska and Hawaii), but the map showed the places they actually controlled in the eastcoast, as well as areas that were under contention with rebels and just swathes of the country that they had no presence in, where presumably there was just mutual aid and/or warlords.