These guys?
Secession??? And when the Russians, Mexicans...etc. (whoever) step over your ‘border’ and start their monkeyshines... who you gonna call?
Wasn’t there a Russian professor who has done work on how the USA is almost assured to become “balkanized” in the future due to the differences that would become more clear as the US falls economically?
How long do you think it would take Texas to form its own military? A large number of the current armed forces are from here, not to mention the guard, and patriots across the state that would join up to protect it.
These guys?
The first step for a state that wants to secede is to kick the National Guard out of their state, and replace it with a true state militia.
I guess the states were too cheap to fund their own militias so they passed their responsibilities onto the feds.
Now any time the feds want to start a war anywhere and run out of armed forces personnel they can start drawing from the National Guard.
But if a state had its own militia it could tell the feds to pound sand. Their militia would be too busy guarding their borders, supporting local authorities in times of extreme duress (e.g. hurricanes, forest fires, etc.) and protecting the citizens of the state.
As long as the National Guard continues to do the job that state militias were meant to do, there is no hope/fear of secession.
Secession??? And when the Russians, Mexicans...etc. (whoever) step over your ‘border’ and start their monkeyshines... who you gonna call?
They would be no worse than the Domestic Enemy Bastards.
Look at an historical example of a secession. When the Soviet Union broke up, did Russia get to keep all the tanks and warships?
Answer: no. For instance, the Ukraine came away from that divorce with quite a stash of military hardware, including a fleet.
In the same way, look for a bunch of US states to secede at once, like a huge ice shelf breaking away. At least one of those states will have either nukes or military assets. And at least one of them will be Arizona.
Who ya gonna call now?
Well, considering that the next thing that will likely happen in the event of a secession is a "hostile takeover", I imagine we will be calling the Russians..."sir".