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| Topic | Texas GOP committee's "principles" are fucking yikes. |
| adjl 06/21/22 12:49:54 PM #91: | Nichtcrawler X posted... The rest of the US can also chose to just not go to war. The US doesn't exactly have the best track record for not going to war in countries that have significant oil reserves. Nichtcrawler X posted... If Texas were to declare independence, and the US were to declare war on them for that, the US would be the one that started the war, not Texas. Not the way the constitution is written. Declaring secession from the US is declaring war on the US. The US could then choose to immediately surrender instead of fighting in said war (after waiting 10 turns), but that's not a particularly likely outcome. Texas is of non-negligible economic value, especially the urban areas (which are mostly blue and would likely want to stay in the Union anyway), so there's little incentive to let it go uncontested. Of course, this is all kind of a moot point. By popular vote (which is what would dictate the outcome of a referendum), I believe Texas is actually a blue state, so I wouldn't expect the vote to secede to succeed. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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