As soon as California left, it would be a very small, weak territory with almost no military capacity. And it would be home to some of the most important natur

As soon as California left, it would be a very small, weak territory with almost no military capacity. And it would be home to some of the most important natural resources around, deep water ports in particular. Imagine that California was a separate country today. Military conquest by America would be an obvious course of action. The real outcome of this would be the transformation of the coastal cities into non-state US territories under military control, without no voting rights or citizenship. And that actually might be a pretty good outcome?