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Well, an orderly transition of power and a functional government are clearly a requirement for forming any new country, peacefully or violently. If you didn't s
by ptaipale 10y ago
Well, an orderly transition of power and a functional government are clearly a requirement for forming any new country, peacefully or violently. If you didn't set up a government, you've got no country because you have no way of managing anything.
As I said, with Baltics I was specifically referring to 1991 which was largely non-violent. Yes, not entirely without violence, but these modern countries were not forged by military power, they were forged by the will of the nation.
- madaxe_again 10y agoSo, the war of independence was non-violent? Honestly, learn history beyond the last 25 years before you shoot your mouth off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_War_of_Independence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_War_of_Independence
- ptaipale 10y agoWould you please read my post and notice I was referring to the formation of the current Latvian independence, and events of 1991? Not the wars of 1918-1920 of which I am quite well aware, thank you. (I even have some distant family members who were fighting in the related, similar war in neighbouring Estonia at that time.)
- madaxe_again 10y agoYet none of those would today exist as independent states if not for the earlier conflict - they would have been Russia.