Texas would take 25 other states, or more with em. About 2 months of our refusing to ship food, water, energy to your sorry city asses, and your own would rise up against you.
Interesting. You do realize Texas is a net importer of food don’t you?
In fact. Most of the states actually import about 90% of their food from South America.
Texas exports only oil products to other states. Products that can be purchased elsewhere. In fact they can be gotten from those same South American Nations.
The Republic of Texas probably wouldn’t last a year. International Trade Deals take months of negotiations, and while that was going on, the Cartels and Mexico would be pushing hard to seize Texas. Those other states would stand back and watch while Texas was overrun. Because it would help them by reopening direct trade routes to Mexico where half of the “American” factories are. You know, GM, Ford, Dodge, and the rest. Most “American Made” products are majority Mexican components under the USMC Agreement. You know, the trade deal that Trump totally fixed? The one formally known as NAFTA?
So while our gas prices would go up a little, very little in reality, Texas would find itself overrun. Short on everything within a couple months. Short of ammunition to shoot the invaders with, short of food to feed themselves with, and short of everything but Oil, which the Mexican companies would love to have.
Yes, short of ammunition. Texas may have a bunch of people who reload in their basements and garages, but you can’t fight the Mexicans, even the Cartels with that. You need mass produced ammunition, which Texas doesn’t really have much of. Certainly not enough of it. Not when it cost almost 200,000 rounds of ammunition to kill one insurgent in Afghanistan. Yes, a vast majority of that was training, but even if you do it with a tenth as much, you’ll be talking a lot of ammo. Not that your troops who will be starving will be able to do much even if they had the ammo.
The good news about the shortage of food will be that when you can’t get animal feed, you’ll be doing the cattle a favor to eat them. As long as they last. Which won’t be long.
But the border will be the least of your worries for a few months as you all go on a rampage to kill Liberals in the cities.