Texas for the day

Ben Mathis-Lilley has a Slate article about unlikely bed-fellows, even for Texas politics:

A representative of the Russia-backed Donetsk People's Republic rebel group in the Ukraine has invited Texas to participate in an upcoming summit of separatist states, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Aleksandr Kofman made the assertion in a television appearance on a station in rebel-held Donetsk.
Kofman listed representatives from Spain's Basque region, Belgium's Flemish region, Venice, Italy, and the American state of Texas as potential participants. (There was no mention of Kosovo, which has been recognized by 108 states, but notably not by Russia.)
Kofman's interviewer expressed particular interest in Texas, asking if there are "sprouts of support" in the state.
"There's more than sprouts," Kofman said, adding that those in favor of Texas independence "fully support the Donetsk People's Republic".
In what appears to be the most recent poll on the subject, eighteen percent of Texan respondents told Rasmussen they believed their state should secede from the United States.

Rico says not that it'll happen, but we should let the Russians run Texas for awhile, see how they like 'independence'...