Do you realize that if California leaves the Union, the Pacific Fleet port in San Diego will be gone.
We have over 50 ships there and about 35,000 employees. It is the single largest employer in San Diego.
It is a warm water port, and couldn’t be moved to another port in California. You would have to move that fleet to Oregon and Washington, neither of which have the facilities.
The much further North ports are not warm water ports. The weather is not nearly as cooperative.
Our operations in the Pacific would be adversely affected.
Exactly. An invader could easily gain a foothold in California and create a base of operations there.