Your framing of European airspace denial as "structural noncooperation" is exactly right.
And it is worth mapping it explicitly to what Christopher Armitage calls the domestic version of this soft secession:state-level non-compliance that renders captured federal authority practically unenforceable without formal separation. What France, Italy, and Spain are doing internationally is what Minnesota, California, and New York are doing domestically — withholding the infrastructure that makes federal action possible.
The apartheid parallel you draw is the right one. The 1986 congressional override of Reagan's sanctions veto, the first successful override of his presidency, happened because TransAfrica and the Free South Africa Movement spent a decade building transnational solidarity infrastructure that made apartheid a domestic American political issue.
What we're seeing now is the reverse: domestic American resistance becoming an international political issue that allied governments can't ignore.
Your framing of European airspace denial as "structural noncooperation" is exactly right.
And it is worth mapping it explicitly to what Christopher Armitage calls the domestic version of this soft secession:state-level non-compliance that renders captured federal authority practically unenforceable without formal separation. What France, Italy, and Spain are doing internationally is what Minnesota, California, and New York are doing domestically — withholding the infrastructure that makes federal action possible.
The apartheid parallel you draw is the right one. The 1986 congressional override of Reagan's sanctions veto, the first successful override of his presidency, happened because TransAfrica and the Free South Africa Movement spent a decade building transnational solidarity infrastructure that made apartheid a domestic American political issue.
What we're seeing now is the reverse: domestic American resistance becoming an international political issue that allied governments can't ignore.
When a superpower gets taken over by an ignorant, fascist dictatorship, it’s everyone’s problem.