re: #55 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Do these morons think they’d get to keep all 15 US military bases, plus the PANTEX nuclear weapons plant, not to mention all the other shit I have no idea about?

As I understand it, Texas joined the United States back in the 1840’s for basically two reasons. First, Mexico was preparing for another go at them. Second, because Texas was economically nonviable independently.

The US declined to annex Texas up until the mid-1840s for two reasons. First, because annexing it would mean war with Mexico. Second, because of the issue of Slave versus Free States.

The United States finally agreed to annex Texas because President Tyler needed the Texas votes to gain another term in office. He was also a major factor in sabotaging British efforts to emancipate the slaves and eliminated slavery prior to admission into the US.

Tyler was outmaneuvered. While Texas was admitted into the US as a slave state, it was after the election that turned out Tyler.

I suspect the concept of economically non-viable as an independent country is still the case.