The USA "left" the British Empire. That much is true, the original comment may have been intended to solely include physical movement, but the way it was written was not technically consistent with that intent.

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civil war
 
noun
a war between political factions or regions within the same country.

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That is the reference.com

Now, do we consider a colony of an Empire a faction or region of the same country.

I will lean toward yes, that we could technically refer to the Revolutionary War as a civil war.

Now that those issues are settled, can we all stop getting heated over semantics please?

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Further aside, Sinij, the USA was in fact extremely libertarian for a very long time... and has never been anything like Somalia, so can you please stop using that reference - it really serves no purpose.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)