It makes a difference if PA is willing to put action to words. they can't resist this alone, they'll need help. so if they get support from other states and those states are ballsy (see stupid) enough to back PA up and including violently then its civil war brothers and sisters and they have population but we have interior positioning and we've got all the food.
depending how many and in what manner states support this it could be over really quick or we might just say fuck it and let the blues split off.
Thinking out loud: Pacific coast, and the greater northeast with a sizable red rural population scattered in their midst. the blues are nicely and neatly contained in major metro areas in red states which means its a more controllable situation and reds will consolidate quicker.
If it turns into war you'll see fighting in the great lakes region AKA rust belt and likely some very nasty warfare in the Rockies. Fights around cities like Denver, Seattle, Sacramento, Minneapolis, Chicago, St Louis. Blues take Denver and hold it and Take and hold Des Moines, that's the ball game for them, they probably are able to negotiate a split. If the reds get Denver, Seattle, and Chicago that puts the reds in a position to get a clean break or they are well positioned to push to break the blue states entirely.
Just my opinion.
Tim Pool is saying that twenty states have filed suit in opposition to Texas. Are battle lines being drawn here?
This isn't going to end with a SCOTUS resolution. SCOTUS tosses it and the Red States will not back down. SCOTUS rules in favor of the Red States then the Blue States will freak the fuck out.
We are at an impasse in my opinion.
Biden nor Trump will be able to Govern this country after this.
Fuck....
when this is all over we need to take the 28th star on the American flag and make it gold to represent the fact that Texas might have just saved this country.
Texas, your suit is dismissed because of latches that have no standing and are not outcome determinative!
I wonder does, this have something to do with the (rumored) shootout that occurred between the CIA and US Special Forces in Frankfurt?
This makes me wonder.
Lets say every red states eventually backs this. The Supremes either decide to not hear the case, or worse, hear it and rule in favor of the defense.
Is it war then? I only say that because:
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
~and~
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
AB systems and air defense in general around DC is insane, especially since 9/11 exposed how vulnerable the US is.
Everything I'm reading here is confidence inspiring to be sure. Well except the China nuking the US part, sure they can hurt us, but we can turn China into a glass parking lot and they know it. The entire purpose of all this political fuckery is a sop against the fact that our military dominance is literally unassailable for the foreseeable future. China has many serious issues just under the surface that the clock is ticking on. They have a restive and unbalanced population that they have broken through thoughtless population controls.
They need the US to be a willing participant in their shit.
The EO and the courage to act on it notwithstanding what is being said here essentially makes DJT the most politically devious, far sighted, cunning, and Machiavelli President in US history. He's created in essence a gigantic trap, used the mindless hatred and overconfidence of his enemies to full advantage, baited a trap by sacrificing a congressional majority in 2018 and now is about to pull off the biggest single act of American realpolitik ever.
I love it, and it fits DJTs MO but its a bridge too far for me at this point. Lets hope OP is correct because the alternatives are all simply too horrible to comprehend.
1: A Biden/Harris admin - China Wins! 2: A potential break up of the United States with a little civil war mixed in for the fuck of it - China Wins 3: A vastly weakened US military and foreign policy influence - China Wins
If we ever needed a little Devine Interference its now.