by Ol'ga Kuznetsova
[REGNUM] For several days now, the Western, and subsequently the Russian, information field has been seething with discussions around the situation in Texas. Local governor Greg Abbott once again entered into a public conflict with federal authorities and refused to implement the decision of the US Supreme Court. The court prohibited the state National Guard from taking control of a section of the American border, as well as erecting barbed wire fences there. In response, Abbott sent a letter to federal authorities in which he reproached the current administration and President Joe Biden personally for violating the constitutional duty to protect the country's territory. And along the way he said that such circumstances reserve the state’s “right to self-defense.” At the same time, new wire fences were installed on the border and additional National Guard forces were sent.