• 𝔹𝕚𝕫𝕫𝕝𝕖@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      The government would never let Texas leave the union, and if by some miracle they actually did I'm sure those weapons and facilities would be forcibly repatriated.

      Texas can't even keep their own lights on, I think it would be hilarious to watch them try to go it alone. But it won't ever happen.

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Texas leaving and the U.S. extracting its nukes would be the best scenario. Horrible for a lot of people in Texas, but better for the world at large.

        • footfaults [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          as @bizzle@midwest.social said below, if this were to happen, the US would take the nukes back, similar to what happened after the collapse of the USSR and ballistic missiles in Ukraine and other former soviet states.

          So, only one nuclear armed rabid dog.

          • barrbaric [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Depends, do you think the ethnonationalist psychos in Texas are more reasonable than post-soviet bureaucrats? Similarly, would the limp-wristed dems who seek to heal the divide at all costs be willing to actually do anything if they said no?

            • footfaults [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              I'm just assuming that since the facility is managed by the Department of Energy, that would settle any debate over whose nukes they are.

              Like, going down the rabbit hole of speculative History, there's no way the US would let a breakaway nation have nukes. Like, that's an existential threat. Cuban missile crisis level existential threat

                • footfaults [none/use name]
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                  1 year ago

                  Lmao I forgot about that one. Maybe the US takes advantage of them not knowing what the DOE controls (the nukes) and just says "oh yeah the DOE needs to clean out their offices and storage facilities. Don't mind us."

        • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          It might be fun for a short while to watch the two sides in a US civil war nuke each other, but given the terrifying number of American WMDs the clouds would probably still envelop the rest of the Earth and kill us all. Oh well.

          sicko-wistful