The better question for this thread is what would your country do if Wyoming became an independent nation-state with control of 1/3 of the American nuclear arsenal?
No Moose should all that powerThe better question for this thread is what would your country do if Wyoming became an independent nation-state with control of 1/3 of the American nuclear arsenal?
Umm noSerious question. It's clear during this pandemic that after Brexit and COVID, the EU is likely going to fall apart at some point in our time, and it got me thinking about America's (mis)handling of COVID, and how some states have been left to their own devices.
Edit: so the thread derailed into yet another EU discussion because I made a comment about the EU falling apart. (I should not have used the phrase "likely to fall apart" and spoke in absolutes) but look, the EU is amazing no doubt about it, however is it so difficult to imagine the possibility of more members leaving over the next few decades as economic and nationalism pressure seeps further into western countries, even with all the red tape involved? Even if the EU exists 50 years from now I can't imagine the members remain the same.
America is in a very strange place, especially to an outsider looking in. Its political system is fundamentally broken, the economy is on federal life support, mass shootings have become the norm, the healthcare system is frighteningly poor for a superpower, hell even the postal service can't catch a break. Like what the hell man?
Would you be happier to see the USA broken up into smaller states? If so, then how?
The better question for this thread is what would your country do if Wyoming became an independent nation-state with control of 1/3 of the American nuclear arsenal?
There are a lot of crazy threads here lately.No. Absolutely not.
Era stop with this stupid ass line of thinking
it definitely will do
unfortunately you have big rich countries and a lot of smaller poor countries - the idea is a wealth redistribution.
its idealistic but not sustainable
That's not a good excuse for all the horrid shit the US has and continues to do to other countries.I'm sure the world would be a wonderful place after that as no powerful countries will fuck with weaker ones anymore.
It should. United States is taking in free money because the internal order revolves around it. The entire world is financing their irresponsible behaviour with no balance in check. Most of the world power is vested in a single nation, and as everyone can see it only takes one bad president to take the world into the chaos.
That's not a good excuse for all the horrid shit the US has and continues to do to other countries.
Well, I'm sure some do. I don't think propping up dictators, rigging elections, funding and arming right wing extremists to fight proxy wars, and straight up carrying out coups and assassinations as anything but bringing the world ever closer to another WW, but that won't be accepted by anyone who already drank the imperialism kool-aid a billion years ago.If you see those actions as preventing World War III then they become much more palatable.
Wyoming is completely landlocked and has around 500 thousand people. They're not becoming a nation-state. lolThe better question for this thread is what would your country do if Wyoming became an independent nation-state with control of 1/3 of the American nuclear arsenal?
Imagine being a young professional in Charlotte, Atlanta, or Miami or being a out-of-state college student at Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice, or Gatech and reading a headline about secession. Clusterfuck.There would be a mass redistribution of people (in particular minorities) right before anything is solidified.
Not fair to Illinois which is also a hardcore blue state.It's a very real possibility that the new "western states pact" goes further after covid-19 and starts implementing health and economic policies exclusive to its participants, and then later perhaps the states would stop paying federal taxes and operate semi-soverignly. It would be an amazing and historic legal battle and probably constutional crisis.
The east coast might follow suit for their own type of system, Texas would surely go back to the glory days of being their own country, and you'll have 3 bordering coastal nations with a third world, barren central US that remains
Right now while I'm a red state? No. Once I get my degree and move to a blue state? Hell yeah break this sucker up.
Wyoming is completely landlocked and has around 500 thousand people. They're not becoming a nation-state. lol
Why? Because someone on a message board came up with a silly hypothetical?
Wyoming is completely landlocked and has around 500 thousand people. They're not becoming a nation-state. lol
True, but in most of those 25 years one of the members never actually left. You can't deny that Brexit has changed the tide.
Ok, now give me a list of them so I can have a comparison laugh
"My population"? I don't know why it's my population.That didn't stop Switzerland, although your population looks more like the Maldives
[/QUOTE]Ok, now give me a list of them so I can have a comparison laugh
"My population"? I don't know why it my population.
This one was smart enough to spike their own OP with EU talk to keep the thread alive until the US day shift could take it from there.