re: #30 William Lewis

He does what you want and the union shatters, completely and irreparably, into 5 pissant little nations. Boom, Russia and China get to fight for the spoils. Thats why he’s not triggering ACW2.

The republic has already been shattered.

Whatever these thugs will do will force California and New York (then New England, then Oregon and Washington state) to vote themselves out. They’ll start wars and forced confiscation of land from the First Nations that will be irretrievably disastrous on an international level (just because the US media didn’t give two shits about DAP doesn’t mean that the BBC ignored it, etc.)… and then the First Nations will forcibly declare independence from us.

As the days pass, the less and less I see the concept of a representative republic actually surviving.