Murray Simser: The Next Civil War Won’t Be Fought With Guns

In today’s Three Minutes, Stephen LeDrew speaks with Murray Simser, CEO of Citizn, about a question increasingly being asked in the United States – whether a civil war has already begun.Simser argues that this conflict will not resemble the American Civil War of the 19th century. There will be no clear geographic lines, uniforms, or battlefields. Instead, the primary theatre of conflict is online, where technology now wields more power to reshape societies than armies ever did.The discussion explores how social media has become the engine of modern civil conflict, allowing political and cultural battles to be fought without bloodshed – but with profound consequences. Simser explains why internal tension is inevitable as the United States transitions away from its post-World War II role as the world’s dominant hegemon.They also examine the decline of American economic dominance, the rise of a multipolar world led by the United States, China, India, and the European Union, and why this shift is producing internal strain similar to what Britain experienced during the final decades of its own empire.A sober, unsentimental look at power, technology, and what civil conflict looks like in the 21st century. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.