SEP 2016. Moscow welcomes the (would-be) sovereign nations of California and Texas:

[haele]

7. Agreed.

However, propaganda can't nuance very well, so if the target audience has a habit of questioning, it tends to unravel. It might be a nice daydream, and the Libertarians among us might bite, but it will take close to a century and the willingness U.S. government to stand aside during the entire time to unravel the Western states from the United States of America.

Basically, the U.S. will have to have already balkanized - all federal departments in shambles - before the West Coast will be able to stand up on its own. And I'd hate to imagine what life in the U.S. would be like prior to that point in time - we in California would not be the fifth largest economy in the world by then...
The Trumpanzees - what few would be left serving under some Christianist CEO who managed to amass enough wealth and property to buy his/her own private army before staking out their bit of national parkland to build their compounds on - will never know what happened.

Been watching the slow death happen in Kansas over the past six years. That's the canary in the coal mine.

Haele