Airedale260
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Brief response on a couple of points. Bit tired at the moment so keeping things short.
a) Ah I was thinking of the possibility of the DT US taking the Philippines here. The UT US definitely could IF it had the will to take it and if it was willing to give it independence quickly which would both mollify public opinion in the UTUS and also avoid any resistance.
No, I got that. What I meant was, historically, we had problems with staging out of Hong Kong but Dewey DID pull it off because the Spanish were that fucking incomplete. So it’s very likely they could do it again on their own with knowledge of what pitfalls to avoid.
That's not how supply chains work. They don't stop at national borders so the urban UTUS retains its consumer economy but regions leaving lose theirs. All of the UTUS collapses and the cities have it worst not best because they're densely populated enough for the food riots to destroy their infrastructure.
Wouldn’t necessarily be as profoundly disastrous as you think. It won’t be pretty, but calling out the National Guard to restore order is going to be a high priority. It’ll take some work, but getting things to a stable level is quite doable. Especially if they go bargaining for support from both the rest of the U.S. as well as the major European powers.