Chapotraphouse

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established power extends out from cities, as these are the places where materiel and the personnel to deploy them are extremely concentrated.

the "sea" would be a place without central control, nominally contested by separate powers with lanes of more intense conflict over logistical channels and nationally critical extractive infrastructure.

the successful cuban revolution--an insurrection against an entrenched settler colonial project older than the US--started and gained power in the "sea", as the numerous abortive insurrections of the city were put down by concentrated deployment of forces and continuously fractured.

the hacienda and litifundio types of systems are the outposts of power, where manorial structures are nominally propped up by the promise of state power in an emergency, but materially expected to control the local labor force using their own mechanisms.

the effort of the francoist regime has been to depopulate whole regions of spain and push those people into highly developed urban contexts, a 20th century update to the enclosure system of proletarianism + accumulation through disposession. we see this economic dislocation and concentration of humans everywhere under capital.

we can pretend like chicago or seattle or wherever will step up to take on DC, but unless they're already building out and stockpiling underground tunnels to retreat their political leadership to when the shelling starts, the contest would be over before it began. DC has all that infrastructure for its leaders.

after that its fighting for airports, seaports, arterial highways, and a "green zone" for the occupational authority (probably north side in Chicago, generally wherever the rich live) and then, the status quo/maintenance of door kicking fire teams just outside the wire.

at a certain point, all most people living in an occupied/contested city is going to care about is drinkable water, electrcity, and being able to heat their homes in winter.