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The US just releases a public statement that says they value their alliance with Mexico and have no intention of interfering with their politics or their military.
the ghost of Santa Anna starts dancing
โIf Texas becomes independent from the US we consider any conflict between them and Mexico an internal matter of Mexico.โ
I feel like Texas is pretty well armed
Probably not well trained. Though it'd probably be a toss up on whether they can take the Mexican army.
Imagine if we built a wall to keep out Texans
Classic line from John Lennon's hit song ๐
A guy can dream.
Texas has Austin, Dallas, and oil. All three are things we'd like to keep; the first two are mainly dragged down by the rest of the state, and the rest of the US still needs the last, for now.
You forgot Houston, the blue spot that their politicians are trying to remove the vote from. Literally. It's horrendous.
3rd/4th largest city in the country (constantly back and forth with Chicago) and Houston is always somehow forgotten ๐ข
If I was associated with Texas, I'd also rather be forgotten...
Yeah sure, population of 30 million people, but let's just write them all off as forgotten. Or be a grown up and realize that Texas and the wider world are not black and white and more a variety of grey shades. There are bad people here, there are also good people here.
Doesn't your voting system do that anyway?
San Antonio is the best city in Texas. Puffy tacos, street tacos, crispy tacos, breakfast tacos, ...
I'd vote for San Antonio as the new Capitol ๐ฎ
remove the military bases and their gdp goes way down.
And prisons
They would get invaded for their oil
If Texas wants to leave, let them.
And then we can conquer them and turn them into a protectorate. We'll swap in PR or DC as the fiftieth state, so we don't need to update the flag.
Well its gonna be a cold day in hell before I recognize Missoura.
What?
Cool! Thanks for the history lesson.
Well the US would have to "Come and take [the cannon]" first as it's in a museum in Gonzales, Texas. It was too much trouble for a dinky little cannon then, it'll be too much trouble for a dinky little cannon in this hypothetical future.
Edit: upon further research the "Come and take it" cannon was not that little one in the museum, but a larger one. However that one was melted down and turned in to a church bell
Really dont think the us would have to. There would be such noise made of it, mexico would march up here just to shut them up
I vote this.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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