• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You want that land over there? Then you just have to kill/displace anyone currently living there, then fill it with your own citizens, then ask them. Easy land grab. Also a genocide.

    That’s virtually all of human history.

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Nah. For most of human history there were not referendums to “let them choose”. They just annexed the place.

      The referendums is a relatively modern “invention”.

    • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 months ago

      But not the Falklands, when the British arrived the population consisted of Penguins and nothing else.