If it cost 1 Trillion dollars to occupy a few cities in Afghanistan, how much will it cost to occupy the blue states?

[Nimble_Idea]

FAFO?

[Norbert]

1. Alot, if people quit spending

[Bluestocking]

2. And our tax dollars to the Federal government will stop

Where will the red states get their money from?

[quakerboy]

3. lets look at alternatives

Given trumps goal is an unfettered dictatorship, and his teams goal is unrestrained fascist rule, what cost will they pay to get there?

They could just seperate from us.. but what would it "cost" to give up 10-15 states and the top 50-100 metro areas?

The one thing they can't do, in either scenario, is allow ongoing resistance or freedom.

So.. is it cheaper to occupy and suppress, murder wholesale, or split up?

So far occupation seems effective. In 6 months, noone and nothing has bern effective in stopping either the tyranny or the fascism. And most Americans, while unhappy, seem to be settled in and ready to continue on as good Germans, or at least quiet ones.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Doesn't matter how much it would cost

There aren’t enough personnel, even if every active duty service member overseas was returned stateside, and all 10,000 new ICE agents were deployed.

Nationwide martial law, even just in blue states, is a physical impossibility.

They couldn’t even lock down and control LA.