The Machiavellian Moment

"There's no such thing as an eternal magical solution when it comes to things like governments and republics," he says. "I don't think a decade goes by in this for the vast majority of it where some border doesn't change somewhere." The U.S. has more military assets than any other country, but they're not stable enough yet according to his analysis. He asks: What would you do if Texas or Montana left the federal system?