Alaska could never secede without the assistance of a foreign power. The continental U.S. could cripple a secessionist Alaska by embargo alone.
Self sufficient? Really? How much dairy is made in Alaska? What medicines are produced in Alaska? What dry goods are made in Alaska? What industrial products are made in Alaska? Vegetables, wheat, rice, corn, sugar? The average Alaskan would subsist on the eskimo diet for all of a week before begging to be let back into the union.
I have visited family in Alaska many times when I still had family there, and Alaskans are extremely dependent on the daily influx of cargo planes which explains in part the extremely high cost of living.
“How much dairy is made in Alaska? What medicines are produced in Alaska? What dry goods are made in Alaska? What industrial products are made in Alaska? Vegetables, wheat, rice, corn, sugar?”
Dubai and the other Emerites qualify for that description.
They have oil. Alaska has oil.
Like any nation, international trade is key.
The most dependent area in the United States is Washington DC. Those weakling fascist freaks couldn’t take a leak unless someone was holding the pot to piss in. They’re all fat slobs living off the taxpayer teat. Cut off the support and they all die.