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It's hardly a precedent, probably half of the countries worldwide have been formed by seceding from some other country against its will. U.S. would be in this h
by oytis 9mo ago
It's hardly a precedent, probably half of the countries worldwide have been formed by seceding from some other country against its will. U.S. would be in this half.
- epolanski 9mo agoIt's the first country to do so under foreign military presence since UN inception. The only precedents of unilateral secession were Slovenia and Croatia from Yugoslavia and Bangladesh from Pakistan but none did so under foreign military presence.
- Citizen_Lame 9mo ago[flagged]
- epolanski 9mo agoAvoid witch hunting, it adds nothing to discussions and it's against the rules of this board.
- Citizen_Lame 9mo agoA yes, those pesky facts.
- epolanski 9mo agoYou didn't bring any fact, only an accusation. I stated a fact, Kosovo seceded unilaterally under foreign forces occupation and created a dangerous precedent.
- Zigurd 9mo agoBut for some face-saving gestures, a lot of colonies of the Soviet empire left unilaterally.
- oytis 9mo agoIreland: am I joke to you?
- epolanski 9mo ago1. Soviet countries were already countries. They left a supra national entity. 2. Not sure how it relates to my comment. Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Latvia, etc, were not under military occupation by a foreign force.
- Zigurd 9mo agoKazakhstan, Ukraine, Latvia, etc, were not under military occupation by a foreign force. You haven't been to the Museum of the Occupation in Riga, have you?
- oytis 9mo agoAll of the Arab countries have basically seceded from Ottoman empire under an occupation of this or that European country. "Unilaterally" is not easy to define. Sometimes there is a long and violent struggle for independence and the metropole eventually gives in and signs some paper, sometimes it is stubborn and doesn't sign anything - the difference is not that important in my opinion.
- epolanski 9mo agoPre UN.