The verbatim warning “You are all being incited into civil war, yet none of it solves any of the real problems that we all face, and tragically people are dying” is from Marjorie Taylor Greene, reacting to the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. She posted this on social media and repeated it in media clips, warning that escalating confrontations around immigration enforcement and protests were pushing Americans toward a civil‑war mindset.
Does Ms. Greene have a solid point? Someone in the UK thinks so.
Veteran BBC foreign correspondent Paul Wood wrote a piece (for the UK outlet The i, republished and summarized by other sites) arguing that the idea of a second U.S. civil war is no longer “far‑fetched,” given Trump’s hard‑line deportation plans, clashes between federal and state authorities, and street violence in Minneapolis.
Wood describes a 2024 University of Pennsylvania war game in which a president orders a controversial migrant round‑up, state leaders resist, and a standoff between state National Guard units and federal forces spirals into armed conflict; he notes how current events in Minneapolis look disturbingly similar to that scenario.
In that analysis, Wood cites Greene’s warning that “you are all being incited into civil war” as an example of how even Trump‑aligned figures are now openly talking about the risk of internal conflict.
Secondary sites and social posts have packaged Wood’s analysis under headlines like “BBC News correspondent warns US: ‘You are all being incited into civil war,’ even though that exact line is Greene’s, quoted by him.
The underlying warning from Wood is that structural conditions for serious conflict are emerging: presidential use of the Insurrection Act, federal‑state confrontations over deportations, armed street clashes, and the normalization of civil‑war rhetoric on both left and right.
It is not an official BBC declaration that civil war is imminent; it is an individual correspondent’s analysis pointing to worrying parallels between a 2024 civil‑war simulation and current events in Minneapolis and federal immigration policy.
The viral “you are all being incited into civil war” line is a quote from Greene that Wood uses to illustrate how mainstream the civil‑war framing has become in U.S. discourse, which is exactly the dynamic that has many conflict researchers concerned.
Do you agree with this warning?
