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That's not how any of this works. Encouraging Americans to be armed hinders rather than advances Soviet objections.
ASB, very much like step 1, but maybe more so.
I wasn't being 100% serious there, Wendell.
Although in the ASB event of a non-well regulated militia (which is what you've got) coming up against the Spetsnaz (or any other professional outfit, come to that) I won't be laying money on the former's chances.
Ditto the other ASB situation of a Jim Crow segregationist Texas (or any other individual Southern state in the '50s) being left to their own devices until '74.
By that time I can imagine the rest of the USA, who've taken on the Civil Rights changes and are proud to have done so, deciding "Y'know what? Fuck you, you're just an embarrassment, we don't want you any more."
However, the initial proposition is very unlikely, so therefore are also any consequences, which is why I wasn't being too serious in the first place.