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Possession is nine tenths of the law. The Black Hills (a small mountain range) were ceded to the Sioux by treaty. We were all well and good with it until gold
by beat 9y ago
Possession is nine tenths of the law.
The Black Hills (a small mountain range) were ceded to the Sioux by treaty. We were all well and good with it until gold was discovered there. Then the US government stepped in, claimed the Black Hills, and forced out the Sioux (the descendants of the survivors live on the Pine Ridge Reservation southeast of the Black Hills, a stretch of land "worthless" for agriculture or valuable natural resources).
Because power, not righteousness, is the true path to victory.
- clock_tower 9y agoHeil Hitler! /s (Seriously, read Snyder's _Black Earth: the Holocaust as History and Warning_ for how Hitler saw the US as a role model.)
- mseebach 9y agoIt's not difficult to imagine an alternate history in which the nazis did a little better and the allies a little worse, in which the end result was a ceasefire and peace - which would see the allies recognise the legitimacy of the nazi state, based on, exactly, it's possessions at the time of the ceasefire. Come to think of it, possession by the red army was exactly how eastern Europe ended up vassals to USSR after WW2.
- valuearb 9y agoThe USSR was as bad as the Nazis, if not worse. Arguably a stalemate on the eastern front would have been better than the actual results.