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Re:UK votes to leave EU by ommunist on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:23PM (#11973147)
The US annexed Texas, ripping it off from Mexica in 1848. Give it back you bully state!
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Re:UK votes to leave EU by dragonwriter on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:35PM (#11973250)
> The US annexed Texas, ripping it off from Mexica in 1848.

It annexed the Republic of Texas, which had been independent of Mexico since 1836, in 1846.

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Re:UK votes to leave EU by ommunist on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:57PM (#11973408)
Freedom to Texas! Than we'll discuss Crimea.
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