Time for Texas to secede from the union!
I'd be all for it.
I agree that this would be a good thing.
We wouldn't be missing a darn thing if we seceded.
We have our own electric grid (unlike most states!), plenty of food, certainly plenty of farmland and cattle, plenty of water, plenty of military, plenty of energy (oil, wind, solar), etc.
And the few things we don't have we can always import :)
Ahh...but Texas doesn't have something which counts...a viable Armed Forces which could repel the US Armed Forces. 150 years ago, a whole region of the USA attempted to secede and were militarily defeated (more like devastated). What would make you think that the State of Texas could take on the USA military? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for any state having the right to secede. But the reality is the Federal Government will not in any way, shape or form, tolerate anything like a state seceding. And the US Armed Forces will strike and kill fellow Americans trying to secede if ordered to do so. This is reality. Texas wouldn't have a chance.
We don't need an army -- just a rag-tag militia will do.
You know, the US military really sucks these days. They can't even put down an insurgency in Iraq or Afghanistan with all their satellites, radar, drones, smart bombs, and countless other equipment.
In a war with Texas, it would be less like the cινιℓ ωαr and more like Iraq or Afghanistan. Local insurgents, guerrilla tactics, wear them down, etc.
Only it's easier to demonize the "evil towel heads", "nips" or "nαzιs" than it is to demonize a bunch of fellow Americans... Those Americans doing the slaughtering would have to be VERY, very brainwashed.
One big difference between the USA and Afghanistan, is that irregular warfare has been a way of life for the Afghans for at least 4000 years. The US has not had a major conflict on it's soil since the cινιℓ ωαr. Most Americans are soft and weak and have little or no military experience; still less with the unsavory tactics required to fight and win an insurgency.
The insurgent must be willing to accept massive civilian casualties, and to have the unwavering support of the vast majority of the people. Outside support is also a necessity.The Taliban have all of those advantages; I doubt any US insurgency would. Once the electricity is cut off and people start dying, any insurgency would peter out quickly. The only possible source of outside aid would be Russia, and even that would be doubtful. I can only think of one person I know who would be able to carry out an insurgency. He is a graduate of BUDS (Navy Seal school) and spent years doing black ops for SOCOM. Such people are exceedingly rare, yet they would be the only Americans who would have anything close to the qualifications of an Afghan in irregular warfare.
Anyone who thinks an organized American insurgency would have a fighting chance against the US military is extremely naive.
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