• foyrkopp@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    To clarify:

    Even if an unambiguous majority of Texas would say “we’d like to turn Texas into an independent country”, you’d rather force them to stay by force of arms?

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      11 months ago

      Yes absolutely. Just like in the Civil War, which I am also glad we won.

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      11 months ago

      You don’t get to steal hundreds of thousands of miles of land from a country and wander off. War would happen. Would I like it? No, war is terrible.

      Plus, they wouldn’t survive. Let’s say we didn’t retake our land. The inevitable embargo would destroy them. War is war. Financial war is also kinda war.