Thread: Realpolitik

Rhode Island voted for HRC didn't they? Well, I would think: let them be independent and have her crowned queen of R.I. with Bill being queen's consort and Monica L. his private secretary that would be a perfect threesome.

Originally Posted by They Call Me Blockhead

A poor analogue to me. Sorry.

Imagine the people of Rhode Island had a separate language and culture from the rest of New England. Now imagine the Rhode Islanders were subject to attempts at systematic genocide by the Massachussetters. Now, imagine the US collapses as a union and all the states break up into separate countries, but MA claims RI as a part of it and, thanks to a military presence that was carrying out the genocide they are able to force compliance. Now, the world at large decries the attempts at genocide and a couple of large countries engage in military action to quell it and bring the government leaders of Massachussetts to an international tribunal, however RI is still left as part of MA to avoid provoking a major international war.

Flash forward ten years, RI has recovered from the genocide and carpet bombing and wishes to separate.

Now that's a closer hypothetical to what happened in Kosova.

Really Kees if we are going to vote a state out of the untion I would prefer that it be California. My appologies to anyone who lives there but your goverment no longer looks anything like what the founders of this country intended.

Of course let RI go their own way like this, we put up a little no cost trade embargo for a couple of months wait for them to revolt against their tyranical governemnt then allow them to rejoin the union as they will have learned the value of being free.

Originally Posted by Wildtim

Really Kees if we are going to vote a state out of the untion I would prefer that it be California. .

Nah, just northern California, and more specifically, San Francisco and Berkeley plus a large chunk of the surrounding area!

Yeah, I heard about Kosovo also.

Sorry JMS, the point would be to eliminate the total california effect on national politics. Anything that leaves your Senators and represenatives in DC is unacceptable.

Well, indeed it is true that the Serbians are minority in Kosovo, so there is very little they can do. So are the jews in Jerusalim, but nobody will let the arabs have the old city. Look at any separatist conflict on the earth and it's the same story.
The only difference is perhaps the genocide in the late 90s. But there is plenty of genocide on much larger scale happening in other places that doesn't go to high priority.