Yes. But we’re talking about a scenario where the US is collapsing like every other empire before it has. Rome would have liked to keep hold of England, but they just couldn’t afford it anymore. Alaska is a nice thing to have strategically, but it’s not a core engine of the US economy or one of it’s major population centers. It doesn’t pay for itself. When empires decline, these far flung “nice to have” territories are the first to go.
I think the US annexes parts of BC and Yukon to make a land bridge to Alaska before it gives it up. I’d see it giving up on rural parts of Pennsylvania, all of WV, and Illinois first. I know there’s no mechanism for a state to secede, but what about splitting into parts and only one part keeps the state name/legal status, and the other part just becomes a landlocked entity that has to pay a protection racket but gets $0.00 in federal funding back?
Alaska with its oil, refineries, and spots to park radars make it too nice of a place to hold onto. If in some misguided attempt to Own the Libs or whatever the US did split off Alaska, then whenever someone got up there from CONUS again they’d find English as a third language, if it all, with Mandarin second and whatever native tongue as the first language.
Starting a war with Canada would just accelerate the collapse, kind like Russia invading Ukraine is doing.
Further, a land-bridge to Alaska actually adds to the problem that it costs as lot more money to maintain a military and administrative presence there than the money it generates because now you have to ALSO maintain a strong military presence in BC and Yukon all the while the locals are trying to fuck you up and the rest of Canada is engaged in guerrilla warfare not only there but also against the US presence in Alaska.
Even at best the US would be militarilly bogged down for DECADES in an Occupation of part of a country whose people look exactly like Americans and speak the same language whilst being extremelly pissed off, in a area with incredibly porous borders, borders which such action would have just extended to be far bigger and crossing even more far out and wilder land, all for the sake of a piece of land that even before such an extension and the necessary military occupation to hold it against the enemy next door thus created, did not actually pay enough for its upkeep.
Even more entertaining, whatever natural resource extraction that could be done to pay for it, can already be done since the Alaska is US territory (so there must be good reasons for that not to happen), only under such a scenario it and any transport links for whatever it extracted would be the target of Canadian drones, which it is not now.
Yep and whether or not the air crew tasked with vacating those areas will comply with an order to is a REALLY big IF, should the 50 states start separating
If I was from Omaha and currently flew jets out of Pearl Harbor…I think I’d stick to the coast
FWIW, Alaska and Hawaii are both key strategic locations for the US military which is why they are currently under US control.
Yes. But we’re talking about a scenario where the US is collapsing like every other empire before it has. Rome would have liked to keep hold of England, but they just couldn’t afford it anymore. Alaska is a nice thing to have strategically, but it’s not a core engine of the US economy or one of it’s major population centers. It doesn’t pay for itself. When empires decline, these far flung “nice to have” territories are the first to go.
I think the US annexes parts of BC and Yukon to make a land bridge to Alaska before it gives it up. I’d see it giving up on rural parts of Pennsylvania, all of WV, and Illinois first. I know there’s no mechanism for a state to secede, but what about splitting into parts and only one part keeps the state name/legal status, and the other part just becomes a landlocked entity that has to pay a protection racket but gets $0.00 in federal funding back?
Alaska with its oil, refineries, and spots to park radars make it too nice of a place to hold onto. If in some misguided attempt to Own the Libs or whatever the US did split off Alaska, then whenever someone got up there from CONUS again they’d find English as a third language, if it all, with Mandarin second and whatever native tongue as the first language.
Starting a war with Canada would just accelerate the collapse, kind like Russia invading Ukraine is doing.
Further, a land-bridge to Alaska actually adds to the problem that it costs as lot more money to maintain a military and administrative presence there than the money it generates because now you have to ALSO maintain a strong military presence in BC and Yukon all the while the locals are trying to fuck you up and the rest of Canada is engaged in guerrilla warfare not only there but also against the US presence in Alaska.
Even at best the US would be militarilly bogged down for DECADES in an Occupation of part of a country whose people look exactly like Americans and speak the same language whilst being extremelly pissed off, in a area with incredibly porous borders, borders which such action would have just extended to be far bigger and crossing even more far out and wilder land, all for the sake of a piece of land that even before such an extension and the necessary military occupation to hold it against the enemy next door thus created, did not actually pay enough for its upkeep.
Even more entertaining, whatever natural resource extraction that could be done to pay for it, can already be done since the Alaska is US territory (so there must be good reasons for that not to happen), only under such a scenario it and any transport links for whatever it extracted would be the target of Canadian drones, which it is not now.
Yep and whether or not the air crew tasked with vacating those areas will comply with an order to is a REALLY big IF, should the 50 states start separating
If I was from Omaha and currently flew jets out of Pearl Harbor…I think I’d stick to the coast