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No country allows self-determination of it's regions. Do you think that USA would allow Texas or Lakota Nation to secede?

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There have been recent, legal self-determination referenda in Scotland, New Caledonia and the Falkland Islands.

I'm sure there are more; these are just three I'm familiar with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sovereignty_referendu...

Scotland did the referendum in agreement with British Law and Westminster pairlament. This, note there is no British Constitution that forbids them to do referendums.

About Flakland Islands I don't know, so I don't have an opinion.

Also done legally under British law. With hilariously lopsided results!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereig...

Your previous post:

> Do you think that USA would allow Texas or Lakota Nation to secede?

I think Symbiote was using Scotland as an example to prove that this wasn’t out of the question.

Actually, some of us wish they would.

What's the minimum size of people to ask for independence? One person, one thousand, one million?

I imagine it's dependent on boundaries not individuals. A nation, an island, a state, or a city might ask for independence, but not a person or a group of people. In the US we even have semi-independent spaces like reservations and embassy buildings where a single complex or structure is considered separate from the nation that surrounds it.

I would say, it depends.

what do you mean "let"?

a lot depends on the outcome. you can bet that the british empire didn't "let" the colonies secede, but they did anyway, persevered, and eventually the british "let them" by way of not pursuing the war.

and so, here we are. the same could happen with spain, or a state in the US, or w/e. winners tend to write the history books, as well as perspective on past events.

No country recognizes your right to not be thrown into a black hole.. And yet I’d be willing to bet some would be opposed to it happening :)

How this relates to what I'm saying?

Czechoslovakia.

They both agreed to split. Totally different situation there.

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