>>12017767

Interesting take, can see this as a possible intermediate step. Like, in order to prevent bloodshed, we cut a deal–they can take those five states that the rest of us don't want around anyway, and in exchange they leave us the hell alone for a few years. Meanwhile, we try to save as many as we can from those states before the Merlot Curtain closes.

Gives us breathing space to solidify our position, advertise our obvious mandate to the rest of the world, and lament the plight of our kindred still trapped in the grey flatblock utopia of the Cascadia-Illiconsin-Midatlantic Axis of Evil. Our very own Donbass Russians.

And then, once our PR is spot-on, the AC-130s ride on Sacramento.

Sorry wordy, you just made my eyes twinkle a bit there.

>>12017956

That would be the beauty of such a plan–Free America has an absolute monopoly on all of those things, as well as citizen army numbering in the tens of millions. Actual power. Unfree-America has theoretical internet dollars, some puppets from Plato's cave, and the (quickly fading) idea that NYC is a thing that matters. All of those things are illusory power.

Let them separate themselves from the herd, play at being nation-states, and the whole landscape changes. As of now, they bus in fighters from out of town to fuck shit up and it's a complex political situation the media can spin–once they're states, and we can prove they're busing in fighters to fuck our shit up, then it becomes a legal act of war in the eyes of the world.

Then we take that Actual Power and spank them with it.