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Texas Border Crisis: The Start of America’s Warlord Period?
The United States is potentially on the brink of a watershed moment in its political history. Texas has openly defied the Biden administration and the US Supreme court’s demands to stop blocking federal agents from the southern border. This revolt against Washington has received support from 25 other states, former President Donald Trump, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Instead of trying to quietly deescalate the conflict, Biden has decided to pour gasoline on the fire – issuing an ultimatum for Texas to return control over border patrol to the federal government by Friday. In the likely event that this gamble fails, Biden could very well attempt to steamroll Texas into submission by sending in the US military and ordering the Texas National Guard to turn against state authorities. Such a move would backfire spectacularly. In the best-case scenario, Biden emerges from this crisis even more reviled than he currently is. In the worst-case scenario, American troops will be shooting at one another.
It has become fashionable in recent years to speculate about the possibility of a new American civil war. I personally don’t think that’s the most likely scenario. Instead, what I expect to happen is a steady erosion of the federal center. Washington will nominally remain the imperial capital, but its dictates will be increasingly disregarded by local authorities with their own militias and power bases. The future of America is most likely to resemble Japan’s Sengoku period, in which a symbolic emperor sitting in Kyoto helplessly watched as different warlords and clans fought among themselves.
Column by Dimitri Simes Jr.
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The United States is potentially on the brink of a watershed moment in its political history. Texas has openly defied the Biden administration and the US Supreme court’s demands to stop blocking federal agents from the southern border. This revolt against Washington has received support from 25 other states, former President Donald Trump, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Instead of trying to quietly deescalate the conflict, Biden has decided to pour gasoline on the fire – issuing an ultimatum for Texas to return control over border patrol to the federal government by Friday. In the likely event that this gamble fails, Biden could very well attempt to steamroll Texas into submission by sending in the US military and ordering the Texas National Guard to turn against state authorities. Such a move would backfire spectacularly. In the best-case scenario, Biden emerges from this crisis even more reviled than he currently is. In the worst-case scenario, American troops will be shooting at one another.
It has become fashionable in recent years to speculate about the possibility of a new American civil war. I personally don’t think that’s the most likely scenario. Instead, what I expect to happen is a steady erosion of the federal center. Washington will nominally remain the imperial capital, but its dictates will be increasingly disregarded by local authorities with their own militias and power bases. The future of America is most likely to resemble Japan’s Sengoku period, in which a symbolic emperor sitting in Kyoto helplessly watched as different warlords and clans fought among themselves.
Column by Dimitri Simes Jr.
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Texas National Guardsmen set up razor wire along the southern border amid the political showdown between Governor Greg Abbott and the Biden administration
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💬 "Moscow strongly condemns those who made the attack on the Il-76 possible. Acts of terrorism like this would not occur without support from abroad," stated the representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zakharova.
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❗️The village of Sinkovka near Kupyansk has become a "Bermuda Triangle" for Ukrainian soldiers and a source of true horror for their relatives, Sputnik has learned.
Across social networks, Ukrainians are tirelessly searching for hundreds of missing Ukrainian soldiers who have lost contact with their families since December and January. In the comments section on posts discussing the search for soldiers, relatives describe the situation as akin to "hell" and a "Bermuda Triangle" near Sinkovka, where soldiers are treated as expendable “meat”. Many soldiers have disappeared without a trace, while the bodies of those killed cannot be recovered or identified due to ongoing shelling.
Relatives express their frustration in trying to find information about these missing soldiers, since they have come up empty-handed. Commanders, military registration bureaus and enlistment offices, in addition to government officials, have remained tight-lipped on the matter. In fact, some even suggest that this silence stems from a reluctance to provide compensation to the families of the deceased soldiers.
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Across social networks, Ukrainians are tirelessly searching for hundreds of missing Ukrainian soldiers who have lost contact with their families since December and January. In the comments section on posts discussing the search for soldiers, relatives describe the situation as akin to "hell" and a "Bermuda Triangle" near Sinkovka, where soldiers are treated as expendable “meat”. Many soldiers have disappeared without a trace, while the bodies of those killed cannot be recovered or identified due to ongoing shelling.
Relatives express their frustration in trying to find information about these missing soldiers, since they have come up empty-handed. Commanders, military registration bureaus and enlistment offices, in addition to government officials, have remained tight-lipped on the matter. In fact, some even suggest that this silence stems from a reluctance to provide compensation to the families of the deceased soldiers.
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⚡️ The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to take all measures to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip
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⚡️ The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to take all measures to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip
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📹 The International Court of Justice has mandated Israel to implement all necessary actions to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip
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