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I wonder if a european country can become a US state one day. You know joining the US as an alternative to the european union.
by holydude 9y ago
I wonder if a european country can become a US state one day. You know joining the US as an alternative to the european union.
- craftyguy 9y agoI can't think of any European country that would wish that fate on their citizens.
- davidw 9y agoShort lived effort, but some in Sicily wanted to, after WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_state#Sicily_.28Italy.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_state#Sicily_.28Italy.29
- holydude 9y agoIt is uthinkable by many and it is a very hypothetical question. I am not even sure if the US would want to have a soil so far away from the “mainland” :-)
- kaybe 9y agoFrench Guiana is part of the EU as a part of France, and closer to the US than to Europe. So if we're talking things like that, it becomes more thinkable.
- saryant 9y agoWell, there's already Guam. Not to mention Palau, though I don't fully understand the arrangement between that nation and the US.
- thatcat 9y agoGuam is way further away than Europe and Hawaii is almost as far away.
- dragonwriter 9y agoThe nearest bits of Europe aren't that much further from the US mainland than Hawai’i is. (Ireland to Maine is a hair farther than Hawai’i to California.) And the US certainly has non-state territories even further away.
- empath75 9y agoi can imagine a uk/us (re)union, in theory, if brexit goes really poorly.
- jordanb 9y agoHaha. Only if the US agreed to go back to being a colony!
- whywouldwe 9y agobut why would we? we’re bigger, richer, stronger, and (hypothetically) being asked to accept outsiders
- jordanb 9y agoI'm saying that's the only conceivable scenario in which the UK would agree to "reunion" with the USA.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoI propose a straight trade. Europe gets coastal CA and everything less than 20mi West of I95 from Boston to NYC. 'murka gets the Soviet republics. This way the people who look at Formula Off Road and think "I wish they had that in my country" don't have to put up with the people who look at it and think "that's needless pollution and destruction of the environment"
- pizzetta 9y agoMaybe one of the Baltics. Although Russia might take grave exception that that prop.
- craftyguy 9y agoOnly if Palin can be the governor so she can see the other end of Russia from her house.