Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Texas vs California: Who'd win a hypothetical war? (2020)" video.

  1. The isolated grid might actually make it harder to contain outages and reroute power, depending on how the relay stations get struck.
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  2. CA is exporting what other states desire (tech-based growth), receiving states are often spending their own tax money specifically to incentivize the immigration.
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  3. Hoover primarily serves Las Vegas, and holds the quota reserved for Mexico. CA gets its water from some others downstream, in addition to what it gets internally. Also damaging these dams risks igniting hostilities with the other states they serve.
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  4. CA economic assets are spread throughout the state: many defense, agricultural, and datacenter facilities are actually in rural areas. Only Hollywood could be considered centralized, but social media allows for artists to make alternative products from anywhere.
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  5. I'm thinking that's most likely to happen. CA has naval assets, TX has has naval targets. Texan supplies would get cut dramatically without their coastal refineries (which many forget CA also has itself), and then further degraded with surgical aerial strikes against the Texan power substations that aren't ready for tapping in to the surrounding grid. Which would happen after CA's army of programmers hack havoc upon TX's more hardware-based IT and manufacturing facilities. All the Texan small arms prowess would do little by the time they at best bicycle in to the battlefield.
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