Robert J. Chassell wrote:
If the Iraqi government had waited until it had nuclear weapons, IraqJust to nit-pick (as is list tradition), I think the people of Irian Jaya would disagree...
might well have become the first country since 1945 to annex all of
another country successfully (country as recognized by the UN as a
1648 `Treaty of Westfalia' type of country, not as a `protocol state'
such as South Vietnam)
I'm not sure how you'd consider the status of Tibet either - aren't they effectively annexed?
These only confirm your point - no-one was going to liberate Irian Jaya because the US had authorised the invasion and they were a nuclear power, and no-one liberated Tibet because China was a nuclear power...
Cheers Russell C.
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