I fully expect that the rest of the US, assuming they still acted in concert, could occupy Texas indefinitely, but it would be like Iraq and would be a huge cost in all sorts of ways.
Exactly
many of the blue states frankly would be happy to see Texas go and stop screwing up so much stuff while costing federal dollars.
Perhaps, but they’d be really short sighted then, because Texas would just become the Afghanistan to our Pakistan, e.g. where terrorist assholes flee to after launching attacks in Pakistan
If we really get to this point, it’s going to be bad choices and worse choices and just a lot of needless suffering and death