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What steps would make the USA turn into a Balkanised set of Nation-states? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/askhistorians@lemmy.world

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Purely asking this for some fiction writing

Balkanised has become slang for "region formerly in a federation or union that has split into many small independent nations after the fall of said Union. Like happened in the Balkan region with the fall of USSR"

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[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Well, first the federal government would need to send foot soldiers into the country to attack the people. Then individual state governors would have to active their own police and nation guard troops to defend itself. Then other states would have to have bounty laws that allowed residents to hunt other residents. Then irregulars would have to start attacking across state lines. Then states with ideologically aligned governors would have to pool their resources and setup a border patrol to stop all of these forces from terrorizing they people.

That would be the firm beginning of balkanization