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I’m very disappointed in Antarctica for their narrow minded views on the world.
Goddamn penguins!
To be fair, I don't think the penguins recognize anyone's sovereignty.
Not even the emperor penguins?
Nope. Emperor penguins think all land belongs to them.
ESPECIALLY the Emperor Penguins.
I wish we could be more like penguins, and recognize no borders
GWAR also makes their home base in Antarctica. They did a live show from there once.
Cold as ice.
Paradise
It's been the biggest supporter of Israel from the beginning. The US support is just a distraction from where the true power comes from
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Yeah I get that the US won't recognise Palestine, but what's Antarctica's excuse?!
Antarctica isn’t a sovereign country. Perhaps the map should indicate the slices of Antarctica that belong to countries that were included.
I am aware that neither the penguins nor the scientists residing in Antarctica have declared sovereignty.. :)
Come on NZ, get it together! You're even on this map and all.
They’ve been talking about it for what feels like months now.
But we’ve got a conservative three headed snake running our government at the moment.
We’re not allowed nice things. Just shit like austerity to pay for retroactive tax cuts for landlords.
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Yet this is the great diplomatic Master stroke of our left of center governments in the West. Meanwhile the final solution continues unabated, abetted by weapons still flowing from those Western countries.
Anything short of sending their Navy and Military to land food on the beach and physically defend handing it out is bullshit at this point.
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FINLAND NOOOOO WTF
I have seen that most of the opposition has come together to threaten the governing coalition with a vote of no confidence if they don't do it soon, and that only about half of the coalition opposes it, so hopefully we will see a change of course soon. Disclaimer thoigh that I am not Finnish and don't particularly follow Finnish politics, so I might be missing context
Sorry to be a downer, but the UN General Assembly resolutions and votes are non-binding. The UNGA also voted to condemn the US invasion of Iraq and Russian invasion of Ukraine, and yet the aggressors were not sanctioned or reprimanded.
What's the deal with Czechia and Hungary?
Well Hungary with Orban running the show doesn't like muslims so that's maybe not so shocking
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Disputed recognitions.
Czechoslovakia recognised Palestine, and both successors said they would carry on international legal stuff from Czechoslovakia. However, the Czech government now says that Czechoslovakia never formally recognised Palestine. I don't know how meaningful that claim is or what it's based on. Slovakia independently reaffirmed the recognition shortly after the two split
Hungary's case is just that communist Hungary recognised Palestine and Orban's government is mad about it (though apparently not mad enough to formally retract the recognition)
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Y no Greenland?
Owned by denmark
Ah, I assumed denmark was also green.
WtF denmark.
and so is ukraine, but no one is really helping them either.
So could someone explain what it means for Palestine to be "recognized as a state" by some proportion or other of the UN? If the UN says something is or isn't a state, what does that mean for it?
It's not the UN saying it's a state. Palestine has been an observer at the UN for a while, I believe
If a country doesn't recognise another country, they won't do diplomacy with it, will probably recognise some other country's claim on that land (which is bad for the country that wants to be recognised, obviously), and basically won't treat it as an independent nation
If a country doesn't recognise another country, they won't do diplomacy with it
This isn't necessarily true. See, for example, how loads of countries don't officially recognise Taiwan for the sake of keeping China happy, but do maintain an unusually well-staffed "trade office" in Taipei and accept Taiwanese passports
Isn't that more like de facto recognisation then? If you're accepting passports it's implicitly assumed that you're treating it as a sovereign nation
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besides doing this, why not cut off the aid to the country, or threaten to israel.
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