Texas Secession Petition

[Swede Atlanta]

36. Let's see....

If Texas were to secede (which they won't)....

The U.S. would set a deadline for its citizens to either leave the new country of Texas or be deemed to be a citizen of said country.

Since we will have had no diplomatic history with them we would of course require visas for any Texas national to enter the U.S. Since Texas is not a member of the WTO we would place high tariffs on their produce, oil, etc. We would sever the pipelines running from Canada to Texas.

I would suggest, further steps. Since they are a hostile nation we should have no telephone, air or mail service to or from Texas. They would be cutoff from the U.S. electric grid. Any water flowing from the U.S. into Texas would be now held in reservoirs.

We would see how long they would last. Not very long indeed. They are all bluster but are, at the core, cowards.