wausaubob
Lt. Colonel
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2017
- Location
- Denver, CO
Peaceful secession looks like a possibility when the US has a small army and naval vessels that are dispersed, obsolete or in "ordinary" maintenance and out of service.
As soon as there is a Republican administration, and another competitor is on the continent, the army gets bigger. It pulls out of Texas and it starts buying domestically manufactured weapons. Within months naval expenditures go. Ships are recalled. Maintenance is finished up and new vessels are finished as a full employment measure in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Boston, Portsmouth, ME and even at Ship Island in CA.
There is nothing in US history that suggests the scenario that once the US is more militarized there would have been any restraint exercised, especially in the west.
As soon as there is a Republican administration, and another competitor is on the continent, the army gets bigger. It pulls out of Texas and it starts buying domestically manufactured weapons. Within months naval expenditures go. Ships are recalled. Maintenance is finished up and new vessels are finished as a full employment measure in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Boston, Portsmouth, ME and even at Ship Island in CA.
There is nothing in US history that suggests the scenario that once the US is more militarized there would have been any restraint exercised, especially in the west.