No American worries about "warm water port". That is directly from russian doctrine (their obsession with obtaining ports in warmer waters, such as Mediterranean). We have toooooo many of them. russian doctrine and mil culture is filled with such references, exactly in that verbiage.
Guess who's spurring on the Neo-Confederate lunacy of Greg Abbott and other Republican governors? As Mark Sumner reports, Putin's chief deputy Dmitry Medvedev has tweeted, “Establishing a People's Republic of Texas is getting more and more real."
"Russia is reportedly using its propaganda machine to push hard on this issue, seizing on a dispute between the federal government and Texas as a means of distracting the U.S. from the war in Ukraine."
Yet: "The story has generated exactly zero articles in The New York Times and scant attention anywhere else in the national media."
Who benefits from the media's refusal to deal with this major story? Republicans.
#Abbott’s accusation that the federal government has breached the #Constitution by having “broken the compact between the United States and the States” is almost identical to South Carolina’s 1860 declaration of #secession.
Furthermore, Abbott espouses the fringe theory of constitutional law known as “compact theory,” popularized by #Confederate states during the #CivilWar era and supported by Confederate President #JeffersonDavis.
I cannot overstate how irresponsible, and dangerous it is for these red state governors, and right-wing media to be publicly fanning the flames of #insurrection (again), and #secession. They are intentionally trying to enflame tensions, and encourage the 30% of Americans who have been captured by #Trump to prepare for armed insurrection against the #UnitedStates, and the slaughter of American civilians. They should be brought up on charges now, before the bloodshed.
Abbott and his allies are adopting #Confederate rhetoric in his quest to seize control of the border and subject #migrants to anguish and death. By embracing the Confederate theory of the nation as a mere compact, he has freed himself to take even more aggressive measures against the federal government. We have been here before. It does not end well.
How did the losers end up writing the #history of the #CivilWar and spreading the popular lie of a heroic #Confederacy in a war about states' rights instead of slavery?
"Oddly, the explanation reaches back to the pro-Confederate Dunning School of Reconstruction history at #ColumbiaUniversity... installed a white-supremacist curriculum at Columbia and dispatched doctoral students to set up pro-Confederate #USHistory departments at Southern universities." #GiftArticle https://wapo.st/3NBV7vA
"Until a few years ago, I was among the thousands of #Southerners who never knew they had kin buried under Union Army headstones."
#Secession and #slavery were not as popular among the masses as they want you to think:
"two-thirds of #Alabama families did not own enslaved people"
"after the Compromise of 1877 ended #Reconstruction, plantation oligarchs regained control of Southern legislatures and state universities started churning out history books that ignored Black people and poor Whites"
The new focus on the #Quebec referendums is moot because the Canadian government will not be legally allowed to let a province separate knowing the entity that results will abuse the rights of minorities, currently protected by the Charter.
No one can credibly or intelligently argue an independent Quebec would do otherwise. It’s simply not a constitutional democracy at this point.
NOTHING screams delusion like claiming to “counter #China” & the #CCP & defend #Taiwan — where #LGBTQ#Rights are enshrined in the #Constitution — LIKE aggressively championing: