What US Territory Could Become The 51st State?

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Most certainly that's true. It's his Space Force scheme. The main difference between Trump's lunacy and Gingrich's is that Trump's fan club are all for it.

The breakup of the Soviet Union was analogous to the breakup of the British, and French, colonial empires after the second world war. Not really analogous to US states seceding from the Union.

The Russian Republic (the ruling part that lies west of the Ural Mountians in Europe: aka "Russia Proper") can be likened to England. The part of the Russian Republic that lies east of the Urals in Asia( aka "Siberia") can be likened to Australia (a storehouse for raw materials and a convenient dumping ground for convicts).

The Ukraine and Belarus can be likened to Ireland, and Scotland.

The Baltic states don't have a clear analog in the old British Empire.

The former Soviet Republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Azerbijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazahkistan, Uzbekistan, etc) can be likened to Britain's African and Asian former colonies (Kenya, India, etc).

So decolonization of the USSR was an expected thing. Not sci fi like each American state breaking away from Washington.

But if that sci fi scenario were to happen then, yes for most US states it would be a disaster.

California would do fine, and would probably become world power unto itself.

But landlocked states like Nebraska would have no access to the sea except through hundreds of miles of what would then be foreign countries. Iowans wouldn't be able to get their soybeans to their market in China without river barges and trains going through a half of a dozen states-now foreign countries just to get to the sea port. And the same in reverse with imported goods from China. And each state would have to have its own defense department. And would have to guard its borders from its neighbors (the neighboring states now foreign countries). It would take a lot of adjustment to say the least.

Yeah it would take a lot of adjusting to get used to, but I like to think that the states-turned-countries wouldn't be attacking each other in wars all the time. I mean Americans have traveled, settled, and intermarried between the states for so many years they would probably all still think of each other as allies even after breaking up and maybe they would still learn to compromise despite no longer being united.

It's not like any of these states hold any real grudges against each other. Not even the Northern and Southern states.

Should the airforce be merged back into the army?

I wouldn't discount the self perpetuating hatred many white southerners feel for the rest of the country.

Isn't it at the National Guard level?

I wonder what would happen if all 50 states disbanded? I guess it would be like what happened to the Soviet Union. Some states would still manage to do OK on their own and some would be completely ruined.

The breakup of the Soviet Union was analogous to the breakup of the British, and French, colonial empires after the second world war. Not really analogous to US states seceding from the Union.

The Russian Republic (the ruling part that lies west of the Ural Mountians in Europe: aka "Russia Proper") can be likened to England. The part of the Russian Republic that lies east of the Urals in Asia( aka "Siberia") can be likened to Australia (a storehouse for raw materials and a convenient dumping ground for convicts).

The Ukraine and Belarus can be likened to Ireland, and Scotland.

The Baltic states don't have a clear analog in the old British Empire.

The former Soviet Republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Azerbijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazahkistan, Uzbekistan, etc) can be likened to Britain's African and Asian former colonies (Kenya, India, etc).

So decolonization of the USSR was an expected thing. Not sci fi like each American state breaking away from Washington.

But if that sci fi scenario were to happen then, yes for most US states it would be a disaster.

California would do fine, and would probably become world power unto itself.

But landlocked states like Nebraska would have no access to the sea except through hundreds of miles of what would then be foreign countries. Iowans wouldn't be able to get their soybeans to their market in China without river barges and trains going through a half of a dozen states-now foreign countries just to get to the sea port. And the same in reverse with imported goods from China. And each state would have to have its own defense department. And would have to guard its borders from its neighbors (the neighboring states now foreign countries). It would take a lot of adjustment to say the least.

If something as stupid and senseless as the breakup of the USA were ever to happen, I would imagine it would be common for the various independent American states to form at the very least trade alliances to further economic prosperity, while grumbling about who ever came up with the idiotic idea of dis-unifying the country.

Frankly I think it's destined to happen. Probably (and hopefully) not for a very long time but I firmly believe that all empires are doomed to collapse.

If something as stupid and senseless as the breakup of the USA were ever to happen, I would imagine it would be common for the various independent American states to form at the very least trade alliances to further economic prosperity, while grumbling about who ever came up with the idiotic idea of dis-unifying the country.

Splitting the Roman Empire between east and west definitely caused it's demise in the west.

Frankly I think it's destined to happen. Probably (and hopefully) not for a very long time but I firmly believe that all empires are doomed to collapse.

Frankly I think it's destined to happen. Probably (and hopefully) not for a very long time but I firmly believe that all empires are doomed to collapse.

Empire collapse would be giving up our commonwealth territories and having less foreign bases and embassies not the country separating

Basically this.

The contiguous USA is "the mother country".

The "empire" is "the conquered provinces" (so to speak)over seas. Bases on the far end of the pacific rim, Germany, South Korea, our forces in trouble spots (like Afganistan). Maybe civilian assets as well like mines and factories owned by American companies in other countries.

The fall of the "empire" would be a return to prewar isolationism. WIthdrawal to our homeland . Not a break up of the homeland mother country itself.

The Spain lost its empire in the new world, but Spain the country still exists. The British Empire is basically gone, but England still exists.Ditto the Ottaman Empire and the nation of Turkey.

Americans think of the old Soviet Union as being equivalent to the USA, but it was actually the equivalent of the whole British Empire.