Re:Gibraltar, world’s only airport runway intersecting a road
by Veen on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @05:41PM
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Spain ceded Gibraltar in the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. It wasn't stolen. Besides which, Spain isn't exactly innocent when it comes to "stealing a portion of a country and claiming it as theirs".
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Re:Gibraltar, world’s only airport runway intersecting a road
by mjg59 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @09:01PM
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Spain disputes that the land the airport is on was covered by the Treaty of Utrecht.
Re:Gibraltar, world’s only airport runway intersecting a road
by adamcstephens on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @05:45PM
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Fair enough, I was wrong so deserve the downvotes.
Very few European countries are innocent when it comes to taking land that wasn’t theirs.
Re:Gibraltar, world’s only airport runway intersecting a road
by test_epsilon on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @10:18PM
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> Very few European countries are innocent when it comes to taking land that wasn’t theirs.
Very few any countries are.
That wasn't the important part of the response to your post though, the important part is that it wasn't stolen or conquered.