Re: Background Material: A call for Help from US Easterners

Sounds okay for USA but how would you balkanize Canada?  And more (well
to me) importantly, Mexico?  If you don't balkanize Mexico then Southern
California just changed hands with a big boost to Mexican
economic/military-industrial power... LOL! Mexico can now tax income *
directly * !

Gracias,
Glenn

Hx, SF, and Fx: 6 mm figures, Starships and 1:6K "Wet Navy" warships
are my main interest.	But I have forces in 6 through 25 mm FWIW...

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:48:33 -0500 "Noah V. Doyle"
<nvdoyle@insightbb.com> writes:
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>May I suggest a slightly different approach, for how to apportion the 
>balkanized North America?
>
>Look to the commercially navigable rivers/waters. Mississippi, 
>Missouri, 
>Ohio, Great Lakes; all of these are going to be vastly important for 
>trade, 
>if you break up the USA/Canada/Mexico. You might see a Great Lakes 
>Coalition, dedicated to controlling trade/access to the lakes - and 
>thus 
>the Atlantic, for much of the center of the continent. There would 
>probably 
>be conflicts across the major rivers, for control of them. 
>Nation/states 
>lower on the rivers would be in conflict with those higher up, over 
>access 
>to the oceans...and vice versa, over the flow of the waters 
>themselves.
>
>Don't forget that unless you've somehow handwaved away ICBMs, SSBNs 
>and 
>other major units, several nation/states just became massively armed 
>nuclear powers.
>
>And a more personal comment on the Midwest - we Hoosiers (Indianans, 
>historically) might be willing to 'ally' with Ohio, Michigan and 
>(rural) 
>Illinois, we'd probably have troubles with Kentucky over the Ohio 
>River. If 
>any Chicagoans get any ideas, though, Gary, IN = Stalingrad. :)
>
>Noah Doyle
>
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