@kirbius @mirq Yeah but look how fucking long that takes, and look at what always comes as a response. You’re betting on something that is way more of a gamble than people present it to be. Vanguardism isn’t some perfect strategy, and global information warfare creates attrition, but not victories. I’m not saying you’re wrong — you bring up exactly the right tactics for such a front — but I can’t confidently say that it’d work in the South. Now, If you started at one of the sources of the tributaries in the Midwest, let’s call it Cleveland for simplicity’s sake? Yeah, you’re absolutely right; it’s a matter of sociopolitical infection downstream until you reach like, St Louis or Memphis, and now you have enough nodes on the highway and river system to really fuck with downstream dependents and interstate shipping. And that’s not yet even considering the hugely strategic gains one would get from taking Dayton, OH as just a single example.

But I can’t help but think the ten years of escalating next-generational warfare we’ve so far seen has made people sensitive to the very tactics as well. So the whole thing still results in this remarkably ugly stalemate leaving the Great Basin and half of the Great Plains unaccounted for, the potential for Continuity of Government in Dallas or Houston, the Gulf states under constant sociopolitical attack from the East Coast, and an entirely new MAD sustained by multiple parties holding the nuke locations across the country plus AI because fuck anyone who can’t make decisions fast enough apparently.