• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      US would completely eviscerate any country that took over Hawaii.

      Yep, true that. And the Falklands/Malvinas Islands are allot closer to Argentina than Hawaii is to the U.S.

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          1 year ago

          Distance means fuck all.

          Do you believe China would be happy with Great Britain owning Hong Kong indefinitely, being right next to China?

          Do you believe that if China owned the Catalina Islands off the coast of California that the US would be okay with that, indefinitely?

          Do you believe that what Russia is doing to Ukraine right now has nothing to do with the land around Russia?

          If there’s one constant in world politics, it’s that a nation’s always considers the ground around their nation as theirs as well, or at the very least in their ‘Spear of influence’, and hence their’s to control.