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You dont need outside support to declare independence, it is of no concern to those in Catalan what the US or anyone else thinks. The best course of action for
by celticninja 9y ago
You dont need outside support to declare independence, it is of no concern to those in Catalan what the US or anyone else thinks. The best course of action for the Catalan parliament would have been to call an election and then if they won it with a decent majority used that as their mandate to declare independence. As it is they dont have a solid mandate so it is easier for Spain and the EU to ignore them, however all those Catalans who didnt support independence may well change their minds if the spanish army comes rolling into Barcelona.
- fixermark 9y ago"You don't need outside support to declare independence" is a philosophically pleasing but politically unsound idea. It's the sort of thing that leads to martyred revolutionaries instead of redrawn boundaries on a map.
- notyourday 9y ago> You dont need outside support to declare independence, it is of no concern to those in Catalan what the US or anyone else thinks. Good luck without being self-sufficient.
- celticninja 9y agobased on the figures, that they contribute 20% to spains GDP and get back 14% it would seem that they are on their way to being self sufficient
- notyourday 9y agoBy the same logic NYC can be independent of the NYS and the rest of the United States, which is ridiculous considering that it won't be able to withstand a week without food and fuel supplies from outside the five boroughs.
- iaw 9y agoIndependence does not mean without trade.
- notyourday 9y agoWhen your trading partners do not recognize your independence you won't be trading with them.
- babuskov 9y ago> You dont need outside support to declare independence You don't. But you do need it for anyone in the world to accept is as a fact. A region like that cannot isolate itself from the rest of the world.
- roywiggins 9y agoWell, there's the Abkhazia option where you become a weird pseudo-state with no recognition. It's not great, even if you have a big friend like Russia who does recognize you.
- coryfklein 9y agoIf a group of people had enough military might to declare themselves independent and not fall to subsequent invasion, then it doesn't matter what the rest of the world "thinks", they are independent.
- Grustaf 9y agoThey may be independent in some sense but it still matters a great deal. If other nations don't accept your sovereignty you can't really have trade or diplomatic relations. Just ask South Ossetia, Novorossia or Transdnistria. These days it's pretty pointless to be independent if you can't have foreign trade.
- fixermark 9y agoI'm pretty sure most sub-regions wouldn't trade their political dependence for North Korean-style independence (but I admit to not knowing the hearts and desires of most people ;) ).