Texas vs US Federalos (Jan 6 Redux?) … Open Thread

Please use as an Open Thread.
At current count, it is 28 states versus the Federalos (two states are led by Democrat Governors but the majority are GOP).
It is too pat how this is being rolled out — just as the Empire sinks into the dual humiliation of 404 and the Red Sea. Qui bono?
There were many predictive programming over the years of this current moment too..
Look forward to insights from US citizens and US watchers…

💠@geopolitics_live:
⭕ Texas Border Crisis: The Start of America’s Warlord Period?

The United States is potentially on the brink of a watershed moment in its political history. Texas has openly defied the Biden administration and the US Supreme court’s demands to stop blocking federal agents from the southern border. This revolt against Washington has received support from 25 other states, former President Donald Trump, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Instead of trying to quietly deescalate the conflict, Biden has decided to pour gasoline on the fire – issuing an ultimatum for Texas to return control over border patrol to the federal government by Friday. In the likely event that this gamble fails, Biden could very well attempt to steamroll Texas into submission by sending in the US military and ordering the Texas National Guard to turn against state authorities. Such a move would backfire spectacularly. In the best-case scenario, Biden emerges from this crisis even more reviled than he currently is. In the worst-case scenario, American troops will be shooting at one another.

It has become fashionable in recent years to speculate about the possibility of a new American civil war. I personally don’t think that’s the most likely scenario. Instead, what I expect to happen is a steady erosion of the federal center. Washington will nominally remain the imperial capital, but its dictates will be increasingly disregarded by local authorities with their own militias and power bases. The future of America is most likely to resemble Japan’s Sengoku period, in which a symbolic emperor sitting in Kyoto helplessly watched as different warlords and clans fought among themselves.

Column by Dimitri Simes Jr.

💠@Dimtry Medvedev:
The formation of the Texas People’s Republic is becoming more and more real. What I wrote about at the end of the year before last in a humorous prediction.

The American administration is demonstrating a complete inability to cope with the migration crisis that has flared up in one of the largest US states. Its governor didn’t give a damn about the White House’s position with the frail old man Biden and began restoring the barbed wire fences. Anything to protect ourselves from the influx of migrants who are uncontrollably crossing the southern border. Another striking example of the weakening of US hegemony, which is happening from within as a result of the actions of the Americans themselves.

Official Washington, which so enthusiastically supports the Kyiv neo-Nazis and, it seems, no longer notices anything else, has shown itself to be completely impotent in matters of domestic policy. The scholastic decisions of the Supreme Court that migration issues are only the responsibility of the federal government, and not the state, are divorced from reality. These same authorities, due to their inaction, can finally drive the population of Texas, who is already seriously thinking about secession, to the brink of exasperation. History knows of cases when individual states tried to break away from the United States of America and form a confederation. All this led to a bloody civil war that claimed the lives of thousands and thousands of people.

One way or another, America may face an insoluble constitutional crisis and plunge into the abyss of a new, perhaps even more destructive civil confrontation for a long time. And the Western world will look with bated breath at the American mess. However, that’s their problem.

And although the turmoil in the United States contains significant risks for global stability, the rest of the world, crunching popcorn, is watching the attack of the bad disease of Pindostan, not without gloating.

We're entering the 'Wikipedia article on conflicts' era of American history pic.twitter.com/uHHvo012K0

— Orikron 🇨🇱 (@orikron) January 25, 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standoff_at_Eagle_Pass