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I don't really care one way or another, but the OP provided 2 stipulations for statehood: > If no one recognizes your claims, and then acts with impunity again
by throwaway894345 5y ago
I don't really care one way or another, but the OP provided 2 stipulations for statehood:
> If no one recognizes your claims, and then acts with impunity against you, you’re not a state.
Ukraine only fits one.
- notahacker 5y agoI believe the point the OP was making is that Ukraine, like many other countries, exists because there are limits to the actions its larger, stronger neighbour is willing and able to take. cf Western Sahara. The international community was not interested in preserving Western Sahara as a state, and so now its entire territory is governed by Morocco, save for some tent cities in a corner of desert the Polisario Front clings to mainly because it'd be bad PR for Morocco to wipe them out.