• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    It’s really not legally possible, meaning your either having a revolution, a civil war, or the USA has no ability to stop you as it’s effectively over.

    Unless CA has military bases that would fully side with them, as in all the ones in CA and they would need other states, THEN a war could be possible, but that is very unlikely, currently there’s no military that could beat the US military, so it’s not even worth going over unless the US dissolves.

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      23 hours ago

      The civil war only happens if the U.S. attacks after a secession, but the state that single most funds the U.S. military is California, if you include Washington and Oregon in the secession you now end up with 19ish% of the countries budget and a sizable percentage of the military bases. With the American civil war there was somewhat defined lines of north vs south but this would be fights inside their own states.

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        6 minutes ago

        That’s actually not far off from how things shook out economically in the Civil War. The North had roughly 5x the manpower, firepower, and money of the South. The South was never going to “win” the Civil War, due to that disadvantage. For them, “winning” would have been making the war costly enough to the North that the North gave up.

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        22 hours ago

        And the sentiment of half the East Coast (the one that matters) would be sympathetic to the secessionists