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@alimohammad1934 Georgia favors Azerbaijan entirely because Armenia is allied with Russia.
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Given that China's state-owned oil company has a 25% stake in the consortium that's extracting the the Guyanese oil, even Venezuela's own usual allies would oppose them in this.
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@openmoviearchives7381 DC has over 200 years of unique history separate from Maryland. And has a larger economy than most states. It's also unconstitutional to alter a state's borders without approval of that state's legislature, and Maryland flatly rejects being "given" DC. Presumably because if DC were returned ot Maryland, that city with 200 years of separate history from Maryland would become the largest part of Maryland (displacing Baltimore as the largest city). You're going to be hard-pressed to convince any state that they should absorb a city where none of the residents have any ties to the state nor want to have any ties to the state, yet those same residents would instantly become the dominant political faction within the state due to their sheer numbers. It would be like if the "compromise" to give Puerto Ricans representation in Congress without making PR a state was offered, of instead attaching PR to Florida. Florida would never go for that either.
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@dboyzer1 Crimea was most certainly not "always" part of Russia. Crimea was first conquered by Russia in 1783. Meaning that Crimea was part of Russia for 171 years. Given that Russia has existed for 477 years (or 761 years if you count the Principality of Moscow that preceded it), it's downright absurd to claim that Crimea was always part of Russia. And Ukraine was never going to "give" Crimea to anyone.
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@dboyzer1 Completely wrong, Dmitri. It's Russia and only Russia that violated the Budapest Memorandum. Minsk 1&2 were illegitimate "agreements" that Russia imposed at gunpoint on Ukraine. And there never was an "Istanbul Agreement".
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@dboyzer1 And by "do the right thing" you mean "submit to domination by Russia". It's Russia that refused to abide by any of the agreements they've signed.
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Russia has always felt like it's entitled to dominate all their neighbors. It's what their culture is all about.
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@dboyzer1 Which was a direct result of Russia invading Ukraine and annexing 10% of their territory. You're (deliberately) reversing the cause and effect here.
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@dboyzer1 Ukraine was neutral in 2014. How did that work out for them? Neutrality can't work when you're bordered by an expansionist empire, and your border consists of wide open plains that said empire can easily storm across at any time. In that case, "neutrality" simply means that nobody will come to your aid when the empire invades you.
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There's nothing to say that law has to remain in place. It's a really stupid law, too. It should be repealed, and the size of the House of Representatives significantly increased.
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@AnatolyBerezkin Try 1,142 years.
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@poet7158 No, changing the size of the House of Representatives would not require an amendment. Just an act of Congress. Since that's how the current size of 435 was set.
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@arseniy_viktorovich So Finland should be thanking Russia for a century of brutalization and forced Russification? It was Russia that tried to wipe out the Finnish language and culture. Sweden never did that. And would Finland still be part of Sweden if not for the Russian conquest? Given that Norway also used to be part of Sweden and was allowed to peacefully become independent in 1905, almost certainly yet.
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@shirazzmataz Only one referendum has been held, ever. And the situation in the UK has massively changed since that referendum. Boris Johnson pulling out of his ass that it's supposed to be "once in a generation" is not a valid reason to not allow another referendum. This argument would be like if the Tories wanted to cancel Britain's elections forever, saying "seems weird that election after election is expected to be held until Labour wins".
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@sebaschan-uwu The current House of Representatives is comically small for a nation of over 330 million.
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@TheMasterPlumber "Russian interests" meaning Russia's desire to dominate Eastern Europe. Russia feels like they're entitled to have a "sphere of interest" in Eastern Europe, and that the nations of Eastern Europe shouldn't get any say in the matter. Russia needs to be taught that it's none of their business what alliances other nations join.
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@haroldhausman1672 My statement is completely true. Russia has always been aggressively expansionist. How do you think they got to be so big?
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@haroldhausman1672 Russia was aggressively expansionist before communism, and it's still aggressively expansionist now after communism. It wasn't the economic system that made the USSR expansionist, it was the long-standing Russian affinity for autocracy.
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@haroldhausman1672 Russia's history includes 761 years of expansion via military conquest. Surely you don't think Russia always stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Bering Strait, do you? You can disagree with me all you like, but I'm still right. Russia has a very long history of doing the same thing it's doing right now in Ukraine.
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@haroldhausman1672 You're simply denying well-documented history. Russia's expansion was not peaceful.
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@imjoeim Yes, the Estonian government that had to flee to avoid being executed by the Soviets when Estonia was conquered.
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The new capital in Kalimantan shouldn't cause any issues to the rain forest, since it'll be built along the coast.
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@worlds3061 West Papua literally never wanted to be part of Indonesia, so it's not a remotely similar situation.
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Apparently unaware that China is literally occupying significant swaths of Indian territory right now.
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@TheMasterPlumber And I'm saying that it's actually Russia that chose not to develop positive relations with the West. The West actually bent over backwards to be conciliatory toward Russia, and it was very difficult for the Eastern European nations to convince the West (and particularly the United States) to let them join NATO. As this video pointed out, Poland literally threatened to acquire nuclear weapons unless they were allowed to join NATO. That's how desperate they were to get into NATO. It wasn't until 1999 that anyone (specifically, Poland, Czechia, and Hungary) were able to convince the US to let them join. Prior to that, the US attitude was almost to treat Russia as if it was the only nation in Eastern Europe.
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@therealtaco7328 I would say that's probably a significant overestimate of Quebec's likelihood (given the steadily declining desire for independence among the Québécois), and a bit of an underestimate for South Yemen (given that the entirety of Yemen is such an ungovernable basket case that it's probably going to disintegrate one way or another).
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@wkgurr Russia talks about wanting Ukraine to be "neutral", but what they've always meant by that is "submissive". Russia thinks that they're entitled to dominate their neighbors. Switzerland chose its neutrality. Every nation is entitled to make such a choice. "Neutrality" that's imposed from the outside is simply domination by more powerful neighbors.
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@RogueSecret There was no "state coup" in Ukraine, nor was the Russian language ever banned. The fact that you have to lie your ass off like that shows that you know there's no valid justification for Russia's invasion.
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There's no reason that every nation's work week has to be Monday through Friday, though.
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I doubt many people in Colorado see the difference as a bad thing either.
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@manuelbst8579 That's Argentina's assertion regarding the Falkland Islands. The historical accuracy of that claim is questionable, since it leaves out that the British were the first to discover and claim the islands (in 1690), when they were completely uninhabited. (Since as far as anybody knows, there was never an indigenous population.) Britain first settled the islands in 1765, and temporarily left in 1771 due to economic reasons while continuing to assert their ownership. The islands were illegally occupied by Spain from 1767 to 1811, and then uninhabited until 1829. As such, Argentina's claim is derived from the previous illegal claim by Spain to already-claimed territory which Britain had never relinquished ownership of. The Argentine claim to South Georgia, on the other hand, was first asserted in 1927, and it was on the basis of...absolutely nothing. There had never been any Argentine presence on South Georgia, nor had South Georgia ever been under the administration of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Argentina seems to have claimed it solely because it's British, and Argentina didn't want Britain to have any territory in the South Atlantic.
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@honor9lite1337 The Indonesian government (ie the colonizers) are the entire reason West Papua independence isn't going to happen.
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@user-tr1zj "Disputed" in that China thinks that past border agreements aren't binding if China wants the land on the other side of the border.
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@wkgurr Switzerland has been able to survive as a neutral nation is that their terrain has historically made them extremely difficult to invade. And since 1945, their immediate neighbors are no longer in the business of expansion via conquest. Neither of these factors applied to Ukraine, which has wide-open borders with the aggressively expansionist Russia.
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@dboyzer1 Being "neutral" is what made it possible for Russia to invade Ukraine. You're willfully ignoring the fact that Ukraine was neutral in 2014 when Russia invaded them. For a nation that borders Russia to be "neutral" actually means they're dominated by Russia.
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That's the majority of Russian technology in general.
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@pmack217 No, Russia did not ever apply of NATO membership. Nor was there ever any agreement to end NATO or to "not expand East". And Russia uses depleted uranium as their standard tank ammunition.
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For Turkey to "be able to explain that it has no aggressive behavior towards any country and does not want to fight with anyone, that it only wants to live in peace within its own borders", they'd need to pull their troops out Cyprus.
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@pmack217 No, your claims are most certainly not facts. Countries like Georgia and Ukraine were conquered by Russia. And there was never any "ethnic Russian genocide".
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@Flavas Modern-day independent Moldova is approximately half of the historical Moldovia. The other half (Western Moldavia, or in your language Moldova Occidentală) is still part of Romania. That half of Moldavians seem to be quite happy as part of Romania. Moldavia didn't get erased when it unified with Wallachia and Transylvania the first time, it simply became one of the three constituent regions of a larger country. (I'm aware that "Moldavia" called itself Moldova. I'm using that name because it's easier to differentiate because the historic principality and the modern republic that way.) And from a purely pragmatic view, it seems like reunifying with Romania would be the best way for Moldova to be protected against future Russian aggression. Your country is almost certainly Russia's next target if they achieve victory over Ukraine.
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"Balance" is not the same thing as accuracy. Retrocession of the southern portion of DC to Virginia really was all about slavery.
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@NamemaNSl NATO nations are almost never attacked because the existence of NATO makes it suicidal to attack them. That's the entire reason that nations join NATO.
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@nikitashulmin1883 Should I remind you that the Soviet Union invaded Finland without provocation on November 30, 1939? (No, the shelling of the border village of Mainila was not provocation. Because that was carried out by the NKVD as a false flag operation. The Soviets shelled their own village in order to blame Finland and have a flimsy pretext for invading.) And no, NATO did not start wars against Yugoslavia, Libya, and Iraq. NATO had no involvement whatsoever in either of the wars in Iraq. Yugoslavia ceased to exist as of April 27, 1992, and NATO's war against Serbia was to defend Croatia and Bosnia from genocidal Serbian aggression. And NATO (along with the Arab League) participated in the no-fly zone over Libya to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
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@evanjohnson1299 There's nothing in the Constitution suggesting such a thing.
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If democracy were ever established in China, cities like Beijing and Shanghai would absolutely end up being provinces (or the equivalent) in their own right. Just like how in Japan, Tokyo is a prefecture in its own right. And in Germany, they have Berlin, Hamburg, and Bremen as states in their own right.
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@maxim7781 What Finland did during WW2 was get invaded without provocation by the Soviet Union.
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Yep, but Desert Ceausescu "needs" his giant palace.
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@senoritaincognito1140 Naturally, the rich ruling class would prefer physically separating themselves form the people of Cairo instead of doing anything to make Cairo residents' lives better.
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@oskarkarlsson4142 Russia was not "rejected", they were told that they'd have to apply for membership like everyone else. Putin found that deeply offensive. He said that Russia shouldn't have to wait in line behind "countries that don't matter", that NATO should just automatically give Russia membership because Russia is just so important.
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@jujirer No, the USSR condemned all of Poland's Jews, by making it impossible for Poland to defeat the German invaders. Without the USSR invading as well, the German invasion of Poland might well have failed. Germany and the USSR had agreed in advance to invade Poland together and split its territory down the middle. Which is thoroughly unsurprising, since Prussia and Russia had a long history of imposing "partitions of Poland".
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@mr.gamewatch6165 Romania is already an EU and NATO member, so if Moldova were to reunify with Romania, they'd automatically become part of the EU and NATO. Just as what happened when Germany was reunified.
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If Russia was actually worried about Ukraine joining NATO, literally everything they've done has been counterproductive. Ukraine never wanted to join NATO until after Russia attacked them in 2014.
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That would be insanely suicidal of Venezuela to attempt, given that Brazil's army is more than double the size of Venezuela's.
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Want to make a Russian mad? Ask them why nations want to join NATO.
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@lordhighexecutioner Finland's "neutrality" was imposed at gunpoint by the Soviet Union.
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@causemean Finland was forced to be a puppet and victim of Russia. That's where the term "Finlandization" came from.
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@causemean NATO never "attacked Yugoslavia". Yugoslavia had already ceased to exist in 1991.
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Putin really is some evil mustache-twirling villain, though. His motivations might be "logical" in that he and his regime directly benefit from conquering Ukraine. He's not just randomly causing death and destruction for no reason. But that doesn't make him any less evil. A hitman who kills for profit is just as evil as a serial killer who does it for fun, after all.
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@HolaBruv A union of Ethiopia and Eritrea should've been of great benefit to both sides. But instead of partnership, Ethiopia insisted on dominating Eritrea. And it looks like Ethiopia's going to make the same mistake again.
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The purpose of creating this lake was to place dams across it and convert the constant flow of water from the Mediterranean into hydroelectric power. This would dwarf the power output already produced by the Aswan High Dam on the Nile.
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@user-tr1zj There is no legitimate "Crimean government".
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@twokool4skool129 The Rus' originated in what's now Ukraine.
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The filibuster exists because the Senate is a fundamentally asinine body. People who want to keep it in place pretend that it's some grand tradition, but in reality it was created completely by accident. And the Senate didn't actually realize they had created a rule that would allow filibusters until decades later. When this was discovered, the filibuster was used primarily to prevent anti-slavery bills from ever getting to the floor for a vote. That is the "grand tradition" of the filibuster.
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@ChazWalkerWonders That's a fundamentally ignorant view.
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It was a huge mistaken on Ukraine's part to give up their nukes in exchange for completely empty "security assurances" under the Budapest Memorandum. They should've demanded NATO membership, or at least a separate treaty obligation for military intervention, in exchange for giving up the nukes.
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@sp3cterproductions Just a reminder about your "invented ICBMs" nonsense? The inventor of the first ICBM, Sergei Korolev, was Ukrainian.
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@nashbridges-cu6dy Serbia is hardly neutral. They're clearly allied with Russia.
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The Salazar dictatorship was willing to to anything to hold onto Portugal's African colonies. Anything, that is, except for actually treating the African population as human beings.
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@causemean Because that never happened. Russia never applied for NATO membership. That said, NATO membership does require the unanimous agreement of all current NATO members. As such, if Russia had applied for membership, many current NATO members certainly would have vetoed the application, and for good reason. And claiming that NATO doesn't "respect the security of Russia" is complete BS. The "security of Russia" is entirely within Russia's own borders. Nobody wants to invade Russia.
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The advantage of sending them to Mars would be that it'd be much harder for them to ever come back to Earth.
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@User-jr7vf The problem for the PRC is that the Taiwanese people increasingly no longer consider themselves Chinese at all. So there's really nothing that the PRC can offer them to make Taiwan an ally.
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@Psycho-go5yr Texas's constitution does not in fact allow any such thing. It's a popular myth in Texas, but it's not actually true. New states can only be created with the approval of Congress. Splitting Texas would be subject to that requirement the same as splitting any other state would be. And in terms of DC, "shaking up the status quo" is desperately needed because the status quo is oppressive.
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@Psycho-go5yr Why not Puerto Rico too? We absolutely should add Puerto Rico too. The United States should not have colonies. Puerto Ricans have repeatedly demanded statehood and should be allowed to have it. And you've made it clear that the you only care about the power of the Republican Party. Along with making rather racist assumptions that it's just automatic that any state with a non-white majority would automatically elect only Democrats. Puerto Rico routinely elects Republicans now, why do you assume that wouldn't also apply to their House and Senate delegations if they became a state?
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@jeradw7420 The states being "equal" is a fundamentally terrible idea and prevents equality of the people.
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That "indirect influence" amounts to almost nothing.
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@ChazWalkerWonders "Never getting anything done" is not a good thing.
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@virariueb7182 Having most global trade paid in US dollars is beneficial, but you're vastly overestimating how important it is. The more important factors are that the US has the largest economy in the world (yes, still larger than China) and a military that's quite literally more powerful than the entire rest of the world combined.
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@stivvits1067 That's the literal opposite of what happened. Nobody gets "invited" to join NATO. Nations have to apply to join NATO, and convince all of the current members to allow them in. And contrary to Russia's "NATO expansion" narrative, it was actually quite difficult for the former Warsaw Pact members to convince the US to allow them into NATO. The US in the 1990s should've done more to "contain Russia". Instead, the main focus of the US was a naive attempt to coax Russia into becoming a Western-style liberal democracy, and paying no attention at all to preventing Russia from reconquering the other former Soviet republics. The US attitude in the 90s was that Russia was the only ex-Soviet republic that mattered.
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@stivvits1067 Russia's pretense that NATO is an "existential threat" to them is complete and utter nonsense. The only thing NATO "threatens" is Russia's ability to invade its neighbors. If Russia was willing to peacefully coexist, NATO wouldn't be a problem to them at all. (Hell, at the beginning of Putin's presidency, he didn't consider NATO a problem. It was only when he decided to engage in expansionist wars that it became a problem to him.) Also, the Warsaw Pact was very obviously not a voluntary alliance of equals. The Soviet Union imposed puppet governments on the nations it was militarily occupying, and forced them to join the Warsaw Pact.
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14:07 The most apt comparison, though, would be the similarly genocidal slavery carried out by colonial overlords in what was then known as the Congo Free State/Belgian Congo.
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Yep, Portugal's original African colony is now held by Spain.
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@cruzgomes5660 Ceuta. Conquered by Portugal on August 21, 1415. Officially transferred to Spain on January 1, 1668 .Though it had already been de facto Spanish for a century due to gaining a Spanish majority population during the Iberian Union, and was the only (nominally) Portuguese colony to side with Spain during the Restoration War.
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In reality, that's a "solution" where everybody involved loses. Maryland doesn't want DC added to their state, and DC doesn't want to be added to Maryland. The only "winners" would be tiny rural states like Wyoming, who don't want the check to their disproportionate power in the Senate that would be come from adding new states.
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@sp3cterproductions Russia's missiles are so bad that they'd be more likely to glass themselves. If the warheads are actually still functional at all. It's very expensive and technically demanding to maintain nuclear warheads, after all.
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It's not a valid concern at all. It was always a silly concern that reflected deeply skewed priorities.
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@dudewatevs56 That entire narrative of "the entire nation being dominated by a single city" is complete and utter nonsense.
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@dudewatevs56 Because how would the city "dominate" the government? Just by existing? Does Maryland's location surrounding DC give it any special power over the federal government? Of course not. Neither would DC had such a power if granted statehood.
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@dudewatevs56 If DC becomes a state, all of the federal buildings would not be part of the state. It would simply be surrounded by the state. Just like DC is now surrounded by Maryland. What's so hard to understand?
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@nashbridges-cu6dy NATO did not "invade them".
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@kryz8847 You're a buffoon. All of the nations in Eastern Europe had to beg the United States to let them join NATO. Calling it "hegemonic aggression" is Russian propaganda. Russia thinks it's entitled to have Eastern Europe as its "sphere of influence", and that the nations of Eastern Europe shouldn't get any choice in the matter.
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@linkplays2952 224 years of history being not part of any other state isn't good enough reason for for DC to be its own state?
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@blakekaveny And it absolutely should be changed. Having locked in the size of the House at 435 seats for over a century is insane, given how vastly larger the US population has grown in that time. The House should have to grow with the US population.
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It's now known that there's lots of oil. Thus, the USA will be looking to "liberate" Antarctica in the future.
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@LizardKing-io9vi You're deranged. Sisi is a despot, and he's bankrupting Egypt building a ridiculously extravagant "new capital" in the middle of the desert that will benefit only himself and the rest of the ruling class.
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@beepthemeep12 The issue is that given the heat of the Sahara region, the water would evaporate too quickly for erosion to get the job done. That's why such a large canal would've been needed: so that water would flow in faster than the rate of evaporation.
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@SHARMTFT The Minsk agreements were themselves an unacceptable Russian intrusion into Ukraine. If you wage an armed rebellion, the government has every right to use military force to stop it.
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In reality, you're just desperately flailing for a reason to not make them a state, solely because you're a supporter of the political party that's unpopular in DC. The residents of DC have no connection to Maryland, and Maryland also rejects the idea of being "given" that territory and population. Maryland doesn't want it because those DC residents (who again, have no connection to Maryland, having been separate from the state for centuries) would instantly become a powerful political force within the state. Because DC would become the largest city in Maryland.
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@TainyaGaming Making DC part of Maryland would be unconstitutional unless approved by Maryland. And Maryland won't approve it, because they don't want a bunch of outsiders to suddenly become Maryland's largest population center. The only way you'd be able to force such a transfer against Maryland's will is if you pass a constitutional amendment transferring the residential parts of DC to Maryland. Statehood for DC is in fact the far easier and more reasonable solution.
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@libraryofpangea7018 This whole "Neom" boondoggle is going to bankrupt the country. He's apparently under the delusion that Saudi Arabia's wealth isn't merely vast, but infiinite.
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That's exactly how Russia sees the nations of Europe. They think that Russia is entitled dominate all smaller countries.
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@undertyped1 That's not how global warming works. There's no prospect that it could turn the whole planet into an inhospitable desert. There will still be plenty of life on Earth if nothing is done about global warming. It's just that none of that life would be human.
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Basically, it's silly for Wyoming to be a state at all. Should've just assigned pieces of it to Colorado, Nevada, and Idaho. Nor is this the only state that shouldn't exist. North and South Dakota always should've just been Dakota. Not that any of this would really matter much if we would ever do the rational thing and abolish the Senate.
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And this is a vestige of colonialism that needs to end. The US territories should be given either statehood or independence, according to their preference.
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13:47 I love that Syria claims the Hatay Province "historically belonged to Syria for centuries", when Syria has only existed as a nation for 103 years. For the previous four centuries, Syria itself was part of Turkey.
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@zet99darius87 The Assyrians lived primarily in modern-day Iraq. Modern Syria claiming continuity with them is even sillier than modern Israel claiming continuity with the Kingdom of Judah.
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That's how Russia actually sees things. They think smaller nations like Poland don't actually matter and shouldn't get to make their own decisions. They think that smaller nations' only reason for existence is to be dominated by Russia.
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@timthetiny7538 How many American cities have a GDP of $2 trillion?
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@Under-Kaoz No. Population is the only thing that matters. Land size is irrelevant, and Maryland does not own the land.
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Increasing? Russia's military power is in sharp decline, especially in terms of naval power. A single US Navy carrier battle group is more powerful (by a wide margin) than the entire Russian Navy. And Britain's Royal Navy could easily defeat the Russian Navy as well.
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Why? The people living in DC have no connection to Maryland. And Maryland doesn't want them either. It would be both undemocratic and unconstitutional (because one of the things specifically forbidden by the Constitution is altering a state's borders against its will).
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Why? What's the benefit of that instead of simply giving them actual statehood?
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@twokool4skool129 How exactly do you think Russians came to "already live" in Crimea? That happened via Russia conquering Crimea, and killing or deporting most of the indigenous population in order to replace them with Russian colonists.
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@twokool4skool129 The Rus' came about from a Swedish ruling class intermixing with an East Slavic population in Ukraine.
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Yeah, China surpassed Russia's military technology years ago.
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@grahamreece519 In fact, repealing the 23rd Amendment would be quite easy. After all, red states would just have to be told "if it's kept in place, that means Joe Biden gets 3 electoral votes automatically".
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The last unclaimed part of Antarctica is Marie Byrd Land, which is pretty much unofficial US territory and will be claimed instantly if and when the Antarctic Treaty expires.
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@samuelpenalosa3034 Those are all some of the biggest liars on the planet. They very much have an agenda, and that agenda is supporting Russia. Some of them are quite literally on the Kremlin payroll.
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@RogueSecret Contrary to what Russia shills keep trying to claim, the United States would not in fact invade Mexico if they joined the CSTO.
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@samuelpenalosa3034 None of those people you listed tell the truth, and they very much do have an agenda. That agenda being to support the Russian war effort. Douglas Macgregor and Scott Ritter are quite literally Russian spies.
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@virariueb7182 Why wouldn't we? Hell, China deliberately devalues their own currency. It's not inherently a bad thing for a currency to have a lower value in international exchange.
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The even more insane part is Argentina's farcical "claim" to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, on the basis of...absolutely nothing. They can't even cite proximity to that.
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Why? The idea of the VP being a second Senator for DC instead of somebody actually elected by DC is a simply bizarre idea.
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@angusperson4222 NATO is only obligated to intervene if one of their member states is attacked. But NAOT members are free to choose to intervene in other cases.
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There is also the fact that Germany has among the lowest earthquake risks on the planet. There was absolutely zero possibility of anything like Fukushima ever happening in Germany.
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@NamemaNSl It's Russia that's hostile and aggressive, not NATO. Russia is the threat to every nation that borders them.
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@marcusbrown188 I think about 1500 reps would be appropriate for a nation as large as the United States.
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@yellowtunes2756 No, Russia and Rus' are not the same thing.
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@stivvits1067 You continue to push the false narrative of NATO being "hostile". It's Russia that's hostile. Russia chose to return to imperialist expansionism. The nations of Eastern Europe begged to be allowed into NATO because they all knew it was inevitable that Russia would do this. Because that's simply in Russia's nature.
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The Kiribati part really is completely asinine. The Phoenix Islands are uninhabited, so it's pretty irrelevant what side of the International Date Line they lie on. And the Line Islands are barely populated. Why not just have the work week for that 7% of the Kiribati population be Sunday through Thursday?
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@gehdochnicht No, Russia is not a superpower. They just think they are. The only superpowers are the United States and arguably China.
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Most likely, the result of all this will be that Afghanistan ceases to exist. The only question is whether genocide will be involved in that.
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That's absurd. Moving the capital around to wherever is the most "politically balanced" part of the country is an enormous expense for absolutely no gain.
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@prabhatsourya3883 One thing to bear in mind: the United States has never been a signatory of the Montreux Convention. The US complies with its restrictions as a courtesy to Turkey, not as a legal obligation.
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The fact that Madagascar has a larger population than Australia surprised me. But the vast majority of Australia's land being unpopulated? That's because it's Emu territory, and Australia lost the Emu War.
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The Russia shills completely ignore how difficult it actually was for the nations of Eastern Europe to convince NATO to let them join.
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@theredsalmon612 Voting for Trump would bring about the destruction of the United States from within.
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@sp3cterproductions They didn't invent ICBMs. And Russia has demonstrated an inability to properly maintain anything. Because maintenance costs money, and Russia is deeply corrupt. The money for "maintenance" gets embezzled into oligarchs' offshore bank accounts.
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@commander8625 Telling people they can only have their rights as Americans if they pack up and move to another part of America is insane. The proper reaction to such a suggestion is to do something with that shovel you offered that's very different from digging a hole.
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@ricardoxavier827 Nah, rather than 1 Senator per state, make it zero Senators per state.
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Yes, that was "the whole point of DC". Which illustrates that some of the founding fathers' priorities were actually really stupid.
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Since they haven't given it a name, I'd say call it Sisiopolis, since it's entirely a monument to Sisi's ego.
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@FlorinSutu It sounds like you're a very stupid person, then.
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Utter nonsense. Had those countries in Eastern Europe not joined NATO, most of them would've already been either invaded by Russia, or forced to become "allies" of Russia under the threat of invasion.
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@ivancertic5197 Because Russia was never going to remain weak forever.
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