No way the red state faction stays peaceful, as soon as they fuck something up they’ll deflect blame on to the blue state faction and start doing airstrikes on us to distract
e; Also, this red state faction could never ever ever be allowed to have a nuclear arsenal or we would all be very fucked, so that’s another big hurdle to any kind of breakup plan
Yes, but blue states also physically house or contain a massive amount of military hardware and bases.
For example, broadly speaking, there are not too many major naval bases in red states, there are not too many major army bases in blue states.
Where are which air wings, at the moment?
Which units and commanders pick which sides?
Who gets which nukes?
… Who knows?
We would be far from the first country going through a civil war or balkanization or coup or revolution or even the first time in our own history where things like this would come into play.
Also, it probably would be less about money, per se, as to where would be potentially invaded… as it would be… water, areas with any kind of major manufacturing hubs, extractable natural resources, arable land, large power plants, etc.
It is also highly unlikely that there would be a clean break along state boundaries… lines would almost certainly be redrawn, in one way or another.
Exactly. The biggest reason the United States is a wealthy place with the ability to pay for a good social safety net* isn’t because we have the best system of government or regulations or people or any of that nonsense politicians and pundits will say, it’s because we never had WWI and II play out across our territory and we haven’t had to waste a bunch of money protecting ourselves from Canada or Mexico.
Fuck a lot of what my country has done throughout history, but it’s got a great foundation for building something that doesn’t suck.
*Of course it’s definitely not doing this currently, but there’s potential here
Exceptionalists don’t want to admit it, but that’s only half the story.
The other parts are a large population, room to build new factories at will, and being the largest producer of oil in the world from the moment it became the most important resource in the world.
America has benefited from a century and a half long gold rush but the thing is it’s running out.
They wouldn’t be able to uphold the industrial capacity without blue states. At least Russia has oil and Siberian resources. The fuck would they have? Texas is barely holding together and oil extraction may not be maintained on a large enough scale and Alaska is weird and would probably join the blue states.
Lots of guns and zero humility or acceptance of their own mistakes. Also, Florida sinking into the ocean probably isn’t going to make anyone in that territory more well behaved.
Also also - it wouldn’t be fair to the rest of the world to let this red state country come into existence, because when they aren’t attacking us they’d probably be flinging shit at places like Mexico and Cuba. Also, you know their environmental policies would be a fucking disaster that the global climate really can’t afford.
No way the red state faction stays peaceful, as soon as they fuck something up they’ll deflect blame on to the blue state faction and start doing airstrikes on us to distract
e; Also, this red state faction could never ever ever be allowed to have a nuclear arsenal or we would all be very fucked, so that’s another big hurdle to any kind of breakup plan
As soon as they realize all the money went with the blue states they’ll start invading.
Yes, but blue states also physically house or contain a massive amount of military hardware and bases.
For example, broadly speaking, there are not too many major naval bases in red states, there are not too many major army bases in blue states.
Where are which air wings, at the moment?
Which units and commanders pick which sides?
Who gets which nukes?
… Who knows?
We would be far from the first country going through a civil war or balkanization or coup or revolution or even the first time in our own history where things like this would come into play.
Also, it probably would be less about money, per se, as to where would be potentially invaded… as it would be… water, areas with any kind of major manufacturing hubs, extractable natural resources, arable land, large power plants, etc.
It is also highly unlikely that there would be a clean break along state boundaries… lines would almost certainly be redrawn, in one way or another.
Exactly. The biggest reason the United States is a wealthy place with the ability to pay for a good social safety net* isn’t because we have the best system of government or regulations or people or any of that nonsense politicians and pundits will say, it’s because we never had WWI and II play out across our territory and we haven’t had to waste a bunch of money protecting ourselves from Canada or Mexico.
Fuck a lot of what my country has done throughout history, but it’s got a great foundation for building something that doesn’t suck.
*Of course it’s definitely not doing this currently, but there’s potential here
Exceptionalists don’t want to admit it, but that’s only half the story.
The other parts are a large population, room to build new factories at will, and being the largest producer of oil in the world from the moment it became the most important resource in the world.
America has benefited from a century and a half long gold rush but the thing is it’s running out.
They wouldn’t be able to uphold the industrial capacity without blue states. At least Russia has oil and Siberian resources. The fuck would they have? Texas is barely holding together and oil extraction may not be maintained on a large enough scale and Alaska is weird and would probably join the blue states.
Lots of guns and zero humility or acceptance of their own mistakes. Also, Florida sinking into the ocean probably isn’t going to make anyone in that territory more well behaved.
Also also - it wouldn’t be fair to the rest of the world to let this red state country come into existence, because when they aren’t attacking us they’d probably be flinging shit at places like Mexico and Cuba. Also, you know their environmental policies would be a fucking disaster that the global climate really can’t afford.
Worst case scenario you chuck a couple sabateurs over the boarder and have them blow up the water infrastructure. Try being uppity without water.