A split in America would be the most hilarious end to global hegemonic empire. The remains of the split territories would immediately get picked over for scraps by the most ghoulish agents of remaining neoliberal power. The south would get instantly seized by various financial authorities who would keep smashing the austerity button until their fingers bleed.
Texas would just instantly collapse and become some kind of puppet state for the Yankee Commonwealth or the...New California Republic or whatever those are. The Port Arthur and Houston ports would become like how the Panama canal used to be, legal territory of somewhere else and subject to lopsided trade agreements. Need to keep those Saudi oil shipments coming in and Texas is always broke, so I could easily see President Greg Abbott getting immediately pressured into a deal just to keep the lights on.
Also, all of this would just lead to China having an easier time in its ascendancy, regardless of how any of these goofballs in the survey consider things going
How the fuck is Texas broke?! From first glance it has major resources, major ports, cities with high tech infrastructure, decent pastoral agriculture. On paper it's a tax goldmine. It's not Arkansas or something.
You'd think even the An-caps wouldn't be able to fuck that up much more than refusing infrastructure rework.
A split in America would be the most hilarious end to global hegemonic empire. The remains of the split territories would immediately get picked over for scraps by the most ghoulish agents of remaining neoliberal power. The south would get instantly seized by various financial authorities who would keep smashing the austerity button until their fingers bleed.
Texas would just instantly collapse and become some kind of puppet state for the Yankee Commonwealth or the...New California Republic or whatever those are. The Port Arthur and Houston ports would become like how the Panama canal used to be, legal territory of somewhere else and subject to lopsided trade agreements. Need to keep those Saudi oil shipments coming in and Texas is always broke, so I could easily see President Greg Abbott getting immediately pressured into a deal just to keep the lights on.
Also, all of this would just lead to China having an easier time in its ascendancy, regardless of how any of these goofballs in the survey consider things going
How the fuck is Texas broke?! From first glance it has major resources, major ports, cities with high tech infrastructure, decent pastoral agriculture. On paper it's a tax goldmine. It's not Arkansas or something.
You'd think even the An-caps wouldn't be able to fuck that up much more than refusing infrastructure rework.
Roads are expensive and Texas has a fuck ton of roads.