[quote=“robertmckenna, post:101, topic:72011”]
I did say that independent states are not granted independence by colonial powers.[/quote]
Canada, for example, was.
[quote=“robertmckenna, post:101, topic:72011”]
A sovereign state/ a republic declares its own validity. The imperial state has no say in that.[/quote]
The Union disagreed when the Confederate states tried it.
Duh, because then terrorists would go through the years long process of becoming an American citizen in order to become president, and then make Amurica an islamo-fascist-sharia-law-caliphate… of course. /s