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I think they are stating the odds of the federal government actually allowing secession to go through would be...minimal at best, given these assets in the state.


Bingo. 100-200 physics packages go through the facility annually, and if you think Uncle Sam got mad when someone touched his boats, try touching his nukes.


Nothing a treaty won't solve. Access to West Berlin through the Iron Curtain was a thing.


One could also compare with Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome being in Kazakhstan.


West Berlin was of minimal strategic importance though. It had highly symbolic value of course.


First, we take Manhattan. Then, we take Berlin.


I too am sometimes guided by the beauty of our weapons.

(Though to be honest: usually I'm just guided by the beauty of our tools...)


And I don't like those drugs that keep you thin


The NY Air National Guard has B-52s and tankers. Hopefully they would launch a disarming strike on any attempt by Texas to go nuclear.


Nobody serious thinks Texas secession is a good idea. It’s performative nonsense to rile up idiots.

For an international analogy it’s along the same lines as Putin claiming the sale of Alaska was not valid.




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