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Re:Seasteading by buboard on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:15PM (#20084839)
And how do you solve this chicken and egg problem? Declare autonomy peacefully -> get drowned with nukes. Declare autonomy with war -> be labeled a terrorist and get drowned with nukes. So, geopolitics have reached their final, permanent stage forever?
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Re:Seasteading by Freak_NL on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:08PM (#20085505)
It seems a lot harder than it used to be, but new countries do emerge from time to time. South Sudan is pretty recent. Got there with plenty of violence, but no risk of getting nuked as far as I know.
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Re:Seasteading by bubblewrap on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:29PM (#20085730)
What country would nuke another country for declaring autonomy???
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Re:Seasteading by buboard on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:46PM (#20085925)
palestine, tibet, kurdistan, taiwan etc etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_disputes

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Re:Seasteading by antientropic on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:00PM (#20087850)
Nukes have been used in anger only twice in history and it wasn't over a declaration of independence. They're really not very useful as an offensive weapon.

If (say) Tibet declared independence, there is absolutely no chance that China would nuke it. They would simply send in a whole lot of tanks and people with guns.

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Re:Seasteading by asdfman123 on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:21PM (#20085632)
Nation lines get redrawn frequently in major wars.

We are certainly not beyond having another major, cataclysmic war.

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