another imagined contention
The Republic of Greater Texas, which has the Gulf of Mexico sewn up to a hundred miles or so east of the present Florida border, really, really wants that Keystone XL pipeline down from the Grand Duchy of Alberta. Problem is, the Commonwealth of Ogallala has become unexpectedly protective of its eponymous aquifer, and is demanding extortionate terms to which no true Texan could acquiesce with honor. It'll be necessary to send the Lone Star Army through sparsely populated Shiprock, and to annex its eastern reaches, on the way to occupying and subduing the Ogallalans. California's President Brown is about as keen to have Texas controlling the Colorado River as Bush the Elder was at the prospect of Kuwait's oilfields in Saddam Hussein's pocket. The Guns of August thereupon morphs from cautionary tale into instruction manual.
cordially,
cordially,
