| Kasz216 said: 1) Tell that to all the political polling. Assuming there is no oil. There is no indepentent scotland. They can't afford it. That said all the data i see suggest 30-40 years production at current levels with current drilling methods. As for why Scotland can't be like the rich scandanvian countries.... Well for one. Scotland isn't rich. If it was that easy to just create a rich nation out of nowhere... every nation would be rich. Secondly, the scandanvian countries aren't actually doing all that swell... cutting back on their social programs and looking towards liberalizing their economies. Doing well when compared to the Meditterean. ..outside norway anyway. Why is norway doing so well... you mentioend it... Oil. Additionally, the british parliment would have to vote to allow scotland to leave. Regardless of an independence vote. I suppose that would make sense, every referendum ends like that normally. Especially if it's not what the government wants. It probably won't go independent with a 50-50 vote. 2) If they invaded directly, you'd of likely seen a war or at the very least, very real sanctions.
3) I'm pretty sure one can draw a pretty stark line at ethnic cleansing. It's one that's been consistantly been drawn actually and has been a line acknowledged by EVERYONE since the end of World War 2. In theory it's easy to have a consenus on action but in reality it really ain't. Alot of countries only bother to intervene if it's of strategic importance rather than some random country. Otherwise, the Congo and Zimbabwe would of intervened on by now. Although, I doubt we can make it better. As for tyranny of the majority. I don't know what it's like in the UK, but in the US we specifically have safeguards to protect minorties, as democracies very much should have. I think it's similar here. Discrimination is illegal anyway Also keep in mind it's not like war is the only answer. Hell war isn't even what Obama's talking about. All he's talking about is some sanctions... and some STRONG sanctions would eaisly cause a reverse course, as Russia's economy is extremely weak right now. Economically penalizing countries for flagrantly violating minority rights seems like a no-brainer. When have sanctions ever worked? If they did North Korea wouldn't have nuclear weapons now. All sanctions do is hurt ordinary people, never the elite. Hell, look what happened in the buisness world just recently with Firefox. |
Xbox One, PS4 and Switch (+ Many Retro Consoles)
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Prediction: Switch will sell better than Wii U Lifetime Sales by Jan 1st 2018
