Peacefully or otherwise, wouldn't any separation result in the withdrawal and relocation of ALL federal assets and personnel to U.S. territory? FBI, CAA, Air Force, Army, Navy, etc. The airports and ports would become foreign (and likely immediately embargoed). A logistical nightmare, complicated by local federal employees resigning en m…
Peacefully or otherwise, wouldn't any separation result in the withdrawal and relocation of ALL federal assets and personnel to U.S. territory? FBI, CAA, Air Force, Army, Navy, etc. The airports and ports would become foreign (and likely immediately embargoed). A logistical nightmare, complicated by local federal employees resigning en masse, but a great movie plot. Tanks lined up on what were previously interstate and are now the U.S. borders, with a carrier group patrolling off shore. Meanwhile the newly independent nation of Texas now has a genuine crises on its south western border with Mexico. How long until Abbott's incompetence leads to bloodshed and Mexico demands justice for the deaths? Where would Abbott fly off to hide then?
Peacefully or otherwise, wouldn't any separation result in the withdrawal and relocation of ALL federal assets and personnel to U.S. territory? FBI, CAA, Air Force, Army, Navy, etc. The airports and ports would become foreign (and likely immediately embargoed). A logistical nightmare, complicated by local federal employees resigning en masse, but a great movie plot. Tanks lined up on what were previously interstate and are now the U.S. borders, with a carrier group patrolling off shore. Meanwhile the newly independent nation of Texas now has a genuine crises on its south western border with Mexico. How long until Abbott's incompetence leads to bloodshed and Mexico demands justice for the deaths? Where would Abbott fly off to hide then?
Ah, your next book... And it would make for an unexpected twist to have it start out as a peaceful agreement rather than as a civil war.
I laughed out loud.