The US just releases a public statement that says they value their alliance with Mexico and have no intention of interfering with their politics or their military.
the ghost of Santa Anna starts dancing
„If Texas becomes independent from the US we consider any conflict between them and Mexico an internal matter of Mexico.“
They wouldn't get to keep US military hardware ..
I think they might keep National guard stuff, but that's it.
They don't keep their border/port security, air trafficker controllers, all types of stuff.
Not to mention the quality of people who would flee to America, and the type of people to join Texas.
Even just economic sanctions from the US would destroy the wealthy Texans, they do t have their own international banking systems in Texas.
Like, they'd be left with a couple local credit unions. International chains would eventually operate there, but if Texas became a new country, there's a process banking has to follow to operate there.
It's just idiots that have never left Texas, think nothing would change if no one left Texas.
Well yeah if you literally demolish everything thats currently federal they are fucked. There would still be banks because international banks would see an opportunity and would move fast, they would still have air traffic controllers because there would still be people who wanted jobs and didnt want to leave.
Its worth mentioning that Texas is responsible for roughly 10% of the entire US GDP. Has 19000 National Guard troops and 168,000 currently serving US millitary... if 10% of them elect to stay their economy and military would be about 10% of the size of Mexico, with a heavily armed local population (47% of 30 million people) caipable of an insurgency movement... not saying they would be able to hold off a full blown invasion from Mexico if they meant business, but it would sure as hell not be a cakewalk to keep it.
not saying they would be able to hold off a full blown invasion from Mexico
The danger isn't the Mexican government invading...
It's South American cartels realizing a foothold in New Texas would be valuable. And they're not known for taking only what they need.
An "armed populace" isn't going to fight off the fucking cartels, and the cartels are going to turn Texas into a fucking war zone as they fight over it.
Jesus goddamned christ imagine how much it'd make age of imperialism americans' heads spin to see Texas get filibustered by Latin American mercenaries.
Probably not well trained. Though it'd probably be a toss up on whether they can take the Mexican army.
Texas has Austin, Dallas, and oil. All three are things we'd like to keep; the first two are mainly dragged down by the rest of the state, and the rest of the US still needs the last, for now.
You forgot Houston, the blue spot that their politicians are trying to remove the vote from. Literally. It's horrendous.
3rd/4th largest city in the country (constantly back and forth with Chicago) and Houston is always somehow forgotten 😢
Yeah sure, population of 30 million people, but let's just write them all off as forgotten. Or be a grown up and realize that Texas and the wider world are not black and white and more a variety of grey shades. There are bad people here, there are also good people here.
San Antonio is the best city in Texas. Puffy tacos, street tacos, crispy tacos, breakfast tacos, ...
And then we can conquer them and turn them into a protectorate. We'll swap in PR or DC as the fiftieth state, so we don't need to update the flag.
Well the US would have to "Come and take [the cannon]" first as it's in a museum in Gonzales, Texas. It was too much trouble for a dinky little cannon then, it'll be too much trouble for a dinky little cannon in this hypothetical future.
Edit: upon further research the "Come and take it" cannon was not that little one in the museum, but a larger one. However that one was melted down and turned in to a church bell
Really dont think the us would have to. There would be such noise made of it, mexico would march up here just to shut them up