I think everyone in the world is watching the US election results. It has spawned a fair few memes, like this one:
This has led to me pondering wargaming a conflict (too soon?), a modern take on a Very British Civil War (VBCW) and its Australian counterpart A Right Bloody Mess (ARBM). Considering the country faced a bloody civil war only 150 years ago it's not too hard to imagine.
There's been plenty of fiction over the last 20 years to imagine what this would look like, including the 2005 video game 'Shattered Nation':
The Reddit user VengefulMigit has created these lovely detailed maps:
There's enough there to imagine a platoon of Abrams tanks flying red Anitfa flags or American pick up trucks with black and yellow trim with a whole lot of hunters on the back. Plus the lovely flags. With the work my Balkan / Kosovo / Jakalistan imagination gathering pace, I can see myself getting distracted.
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