I wanted to make myself a real day off for once. It’s not “half a day wandering around and then sitting down to work”, but a full day. But you can rest here with them.
However, this is a rare pleasant (for me) news.
First, I’ve been waiting for something like this for thirty years.
Secondly, it’s always nice when your forecasts come true.
So, as I predicted, the separatist moods in the US have increased dramatically.
Let’s start with the fact that Reuters has published a big article with statements like “The possibility of a potential Great American Breakup” and “United States has become too big to manage”.
That is, “Great American Breakup can cause a Great American Breakup” and even “United States has become too big to manage”.
Isn’t that cute? How did they plan for Russia not so long ago? A couple of dozen small separate states? No one cancelled the karma boomerangs!
Then Trump released two tweets (I love them):
Donald J. Trump
April 14
“Cuomo’s been calling daily, even hourly, begging for everything, most of which should have been the state’s responsibility, such as new, beds, ventilators, etc. I got it all done for him, and everyone else, and now he seems to want Independence! That won’t happen!”
and
Donald J. Trump
April 14
“Tell the Democrat Governors that “Mutiny On The Bounty” was one of my all-time favorite movies. A good old fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch, especially when the mutineers need so much from the Captain. Too easy!”
I’d say it’s a bluff on the verge of hysterics. And there’s every reason for that.
I already wrote the other day about separatist movements among American governors. Now they’ve already formed three unions, or leagues.
1. Seven states in the northeast, already conventionally named “Atlantica.” The GDP of these seven states is estimated at 4.3 trillion dollars (slightly more than that of Germany) and makes 20% of the total GDP of the USA. Thus 22 % of all American taxes collect from them that creates a distortion on 10 %.
The most remarkable thing is that it’s not me who writes, but the Americans themselves. And what is remarkable is that in the spring of 2014, I wrote about the same economic justification for the Donbass branch. “Stop feeding Kiev and Zapuria.” And now they write the same thing in the USA and for the USA.
Two. Three states on the West Coast (California, Wyoming, Oregon) form a second “nation” under the conventional name “Pacifica”. Their GDP is about 19% of that of the United States.
The third group called “Midwestia” consists of several states in the Midwest – Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Their GDP is smaller, about 10% of the American GDP.
As a whole, as it is easy to see, these three groups together control almost half of the US economy.
And, as it is not less difficult to guess, all (except one) governors of these states are members of the Democratic Party.
Here, in fact, is the above mentioned in graphic form.
Obviously, the contradictions between the federal center and the regions, as well as the confrontation between Republicans and Democrats, did not arise right now at the time of the epidemic. The crisis simply exposed and sharpened the existing contradictions (if there were no epidemic, they would have come out on any other occasion).
These separatist groups of governors can well be compared to the Catholic League of the Dukes de Guise or the “front” of the Dukes of Conde.
Moreover, Trump has already managed to breed the threat “to exercise his constitutional right and dissolve both houses of parliament”.
And Trump now has a classic chess fork:
– or ignore the separatist movements of the governors (and then they will strengthen and seriously threaten the integrity of the United States);
– or try to suppress them, and then there will be cries about usurpation of power and dictatorship (with a likely already open rebellion and a descent into civil war).
I am satisfied with both options. Go on.
Alexander Rogers, especially for News Front.