>>If Texas truly made up its mind to leave the union, Washington DC wouldn’t do more than issue a bunch of stern letters.<<
I think it would be bigger than that, even if it didn’t come to shooting.
The biggest issue would be that Texas would unable to issue any money since the US would warn the world that any country that accept Texas money would have its US assets frozen and probably dozens of other nasty economic sanctions. The US would probably then take its posts and bases back and not allow Texas to sell nor move its oil via blockade and the like.
But it would be a very interesting foray into speculative projection to lay out step by step what would happen if Texas DID decide to leave. Might make an interesting book if someone hasn’t already written one.
Texas has already repatriated it’s gold reserve. And is in the process to building a depository for precious metals.
Is that a first step? You can answer that question yourself.
The US Dollar is the medium of exchange for the petroleum industry. May not always be so.
The United States was broke and doomed to failure, upon its achievement of independence from England. At least that’s what the conventional wisdom of the day said.
You’re obviously a skeptic, like so many Loyalists were, back then. That’s fine. You can always run back to Call if it gets too hot for you here.