it's a big country.
there is an awful lot of "here," out here.
i would recommend to you lefties who do not quite grasp the enormity of your task, that you simply get a copy of the u.s.a. today presidential election return map(s), and look at the precinct return maps for the united states.
you will see that you leftists in a sense already occupy a little bit of the country, namely that being the high rent district in urban areas with a view of the water. in short, you already have the cities on the water, ... , the rivers feeding you the produce from the hinterlands, and the ports providing you with the shipping to distant markets.
you have very little of the interior, except for the little enclaves of your "civilization" you have established in and around the various university towns.
in short, you have almost an entire continent that you are not only going to have to whip in a protracted fight, but that you are going to have to occupy after that fight is over, if you prevail.
do i have to add, that it will be a very hostile continent.
now, i don't think you'll win the fight, for reasons i have set forth previously. and, i sure as hell don't think you'll be able to sustain an occupation of a hostile continent.
you won't be able to defeat an insurrection, and you won't be able to suppress it, either.
we will starve you. we will destroy your infrastructure. you will be without water, electric and fuel.
i suggest you read about the great battles of world war ii between the russians, and the germans, over the great cities. and, learn what it is like to be held in siege.
because, that is precisely what you are going to be, my little leftist friends, the inhabitants of an ideology held besieged by geographical and demographic reality. we surround you, and you do not have the wherewithal to occupy us, nor the people. we will not feed you, and we will make sure that the shelter you have is not warmed by fuel or electricity, and we will cut off your water, and your ingress and egress.
we will destroy your ability to dump your sewage and garbage, and you will "live" in it, hip deep.
(idle boasts? i suggest that you go on line, and look at your water and sewer systems, and the power grid that feeds you. it is, dear friends, a very fragile system, subject to attack at its every juncture. see below.)
think, before you strike. after you have, there will be no quarter asked, and no quarter given. it is very hard to occupy the hinterlands, when the great cities you do occupy lie strangled and starved.
john jay @ 01.23.2013
p.s. how to destroy a modern city, some thoughts, this blog, july 31, 2009. ---
http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2009/07/how-to-kill-a-modern-city-or-bring-it-to-its-knees-your-choice.html .
The siege of Sarajevo is worth a read as well.. as close to a modern siege as can be looked at. I recall it mentioning there was about 1 day before the water / natural gas / electricity were cut off. After 8? months, no trees were left standing within a radius of 50 miles of the city. I imagine those living in 30+ level buildings in NYC will have a tale to tell of how they lifted the water (64 lbs a cubic foot? ha! up those 60 flights of stairs in order to get 2 flushes through the toilet, sorry, they'll be about 70 flights including the parkade and mechanical levels that aren't occupied. In the dark. Lighters were treated like silver, and any woman that wanted meat in the refrigerator... well you know where I'm going with that one. It's the left that hasn't got a fucking clue.
Even the wiki article can't make it look like roses.
This was in a city that was somewhat used to hardships during rule by communist types, how will San Fran cope? They won't. How will Chicago cope? oh please...
Posted by: marc in calgary | January 23, 2014 at 08:46 PM
marc:
thank you very much for your very cogent remarks.
the modern city is not the place to endure hardships. and, shutting off water supplies is the easiest way to create hardship.
pack the water up the stairs. pack the water down the stairs, or throw it out the window, whatever it has become.
not pretty.
the bible has some interesting passages about the hardship endured by the inhabitants of jerusalem, during its famous siege.
not pretty.
the fact is that during famine & severe want people do not protect others, to include children. they act to preserve themselves. the aged, the infirm, children starve first.
as you note, good looking women are and pay a premium in such times.
people are not at their best.
the left brings this upon itself.
john jay
Posted by: john jay | January 23, 2014 at 09:01 PM