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I do believe that’s a perfect illustration of how sovereignty works in the real world. See also: Taiwan.
by dougmwne 4y ago
I do believe that’s a perfect illustration of how sovereignty works in the real world. See also: Taiwan.
- mbreese 4y agoOne thing I remember from my (only) poli sci class: you are only a sovereign country is other sovereign countries think you are. Much (all?) of international politics is based on consensus and agreement.
- notch656a 4y agoMeh I mean you can be "sovereign" even if almost everyone around you hates you and the entire world doesn't recognize you, even if you are weak and others have "interest" in hurting you, so long as it's more hassle than it's worth for them to eliminate you. See the northeastern cantons of Rojava in Northern Syria. I'm sure there are plenty of examples of unrecognized people living their lives in a "sovereign" way who could easily be slaughtered by their neighbors but the neighbors are just like fuck it, not worth losing a few of our guys to slaughter the unrecognized others. A slightly worse example is the Chechens, who gained a sort of unrecognized independence for several years until they became a bit more of a thorn to Russia who didn't really value their soldiers life much to begin with to worry much about the risks of putting them back down.
- geoduck14 4y agoCan I be a Sovereign Citizen?
- notch656a 4y agolol, you can try. Last time I tried to invoke merely my constitutional rights, the police got a warrant to anal probe me in retaliation [I will post part of the warrant if anyone asks]. Good luck!
- leesalminen 4y agoOk, I’ll bite. Can I see it? Can you confirm if anything was up in your prison wallet?
- notch656a 4y agohttps://i.imgur.com/RXNrYmv.png https://i.imgur.com/RXNrYmv.png https://i.imgur.com/ZFPgRFl.png https://i.imgur.com/ZFPgRFl.png Nothing there lol, otherwise I'd be in jail right now. Federal search warrant initiated by DHS. Obvi they faked the dog alert and visual 'evidence' because they were pissed I mentioned the constitution.
- srmarm 4y agoThat's actually quite chilling and a serious violation of the person. I'm sorry you had to deal with it.
- leesalminen 4y agoWow, gross. Incredible lengths they’ll go to for nothing.
- no-reply 4y agoThat was literally what you said. Didn't expect that lol. Sorry.
- Pixeleen 4y agoI am so sorry.
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- As_You_Wish 4y agoNot really. A country also has to have the ability to be able to defend itself. If every single country in the world recognized Sealand, but they only had a BB gun to defend itself, and 5 guys came up in a rowboat with some AK-47s, and took over Sealand easly, then that's that. What's the point of being recognized? Example: Ukraine. They are being somewhat successful at defending themselves, and stomping the shlit out of Russia, at least so far.
- user3939382 4y agoI don't know what your definition of "stomping" is but you should refer to this map https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/36a7f6a6f5a9448496de641cf64bd375 https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/36a7f6a6f5a9448496de641...
- skinnymuch 4y agoSeems like Russia doesn’t have that much control. The borders are confusing me a bit. It looks like the top part of Russia’s red borders are mostly in Russia. Not Ukraine.
- As_You_Wish 4y agoRussia thought they were going to conquer all Ukraine in 3 days. How many generals, colonels, captains has Russia lost? How much equipment - trucks, cars, planes? Sure, maybe those have been battles, but who will win the war? Maybe Russia, but maybe Ukraine. I don't know, I can't see the future. But so far, Ukraine has been stomping the heck out of Russia. We don't know if the territory will stay with Russia or not, so that map is of little consequence at this time.