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The territories can at any point take a (democratic and non-contestable) vote for their sovereignty. If a majority decided to become a sovereign entity, it's ve
by deaddodo 3y ago
The territories can at any point take a (democratic and non-contestable) vote for their sovereignty. If a majority decided to become a sovereign entity, it's very unlikely the United States would not grant them it. They can also do the same for statehood, but that's a bit more complicated; even so, before 2000, a majority of the United States was pro allowing Puerto Rico statehood, if they decided it. Now....well, good luck given political infighting.
Your option, instead, is forcing millions of American citizens, against their will, into a sovereign situation that they might not be prepared for. Versus letting them make their own choice.
- alluro2 3y agoI think your comment is extremely ignorant to obstacles intentionally crafted to prevent those kinds of things in reality. That political infighting does not exist by itself. Another part is that half of the island is by now dependent on a member of family being in the Navy, housing prices are unmanageable, they rely on food stamps etc etc. To which you are saying - why do they want independence then when they're not prepared for it - but this situation was created outside of their control, and they now don't have means to "prepare for it". Also, you might have skipped the part where their draft resolutions are getting just automatically ignored/denied by UN at every assembly.
- boeingUH60 3y agoGuam will become much poorer if they secede anyways, so I doubt they would.