> How would it even know that it's on the minority side of a partition? Because it would be obvious? The world does not exist in a state where a "true" networ

> How would it even know that it's on the minority side of a partition? Because it would be obvious? The world does not exist in a state where a "true" network partition can ever happen. A "true" network partition I would define as preventing all information, of any type, from going into and out of a country. This is a ridiculous scenario that isn't even worth considering.