Exactly. The biggest reason the United States is a wealthy place with the ability to pay for a good social safety net* isn’t because we have the best system of government or regulations or people or any of that nonsense politicians and pundits will say, it’s because we never had WWI and II play out across our territory and we haven’t had to waste a bunch of money protecting ourselves from Canada or Mexico.
Fuck a lot of what my country has done throughout history, but it’s got a great foundation for building something that doesn’t suck.
*Of course it’s definitely not doing this currently, but there’s potential here
Exceptionalists don’t want to admit it, but that’s only half the story.
The other parts are a large population, room to build new factories at will, and being the largest producer of oil in the world from the moment it became the most important resource in the world.
America has benefited from a century and a half long gold rush but the thing is it’s running out.
Yes, but blue states also physically house or contain a massive amount of military hardware and bases.
For example, broadly speaking, there are not too many major naval bases in red states, there are not too many major army bases in blue states.
Where are which air wings, at the moment?
Which units and commanders pick which sides?
Who gets which nukes?
… Who knows?
We would be far from the first country going through a civil war or balkanization or coup or revolution or even the first time in our own history where things like this would come into play.
Also, it probably would be less about money, per se, as to where would be potentially invaded… as it would be… water, areas with any kind of major manufacturing hubs, extractable natural resources, arable land, large power plants, etc.
It is also highly unlikely that there would be a clean break along state boundaries… lines would almost certainly be redrawn, in one way or another.
As soon as they realize all the money went with the blue states they’ll start invading.
Exactly. The biggest reason the United States is a wealthy place with the ability to pay for a good social safety net* isn’t because we have the best system of government or regulations or people or any of that nonsense politicians and pundits will say, it’s because we never had WWI and II play out across our territory and we haven’t had to waste a bunch of money protecting ourselves from Canada or Mexico.
Fuck a lot of what my country has done throughout history, but it’s got a great foundation for building something that doesn’t suck.
*Of course it’s definitely not doing this currently, but there’s potential here
Exceptionalists don’t want to admit it, but that’s only half the story.
The other parts are a large population, room to build new factories at will, and being the largest producer of oil in the world from the moment it became the most important resource in the world.
America has benefited from a century and a half long gold rush but the thing is it’s running out.
Yes, but blue states also physically house or contain a massive amount of military hardware and bases.
For example, broadly speaking, there are not too many major naval bases in red states, there are not too many major army bases in blue states.
Where are which air wings, at the moment?
Which units and commanders pick which sides?
Who gets which nukes?
… Who knows?
We would be far from the first country going through a civil war or balkanization or coup or revolution or even the first time in our own history where things like this would come into play.
Also, it probably would be less about money, per se, as to where would be potentially invaded… as it would be… water, areas with any kind of major manufacturing hubs, extractable natural resources, arable land, large power plants, etc.
It is also highly unlikely that there would be a clean break along state boundaries… lines would almost certainly be redrawn, in one way or another.