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Originally Posted by Tribesman
Currently you have 5 ongoing border disputes with your "new" northern neighbour, in the 1970s and 80s you went to Holland to ask the Hague to draw a border for you.
As for drawing up borders for other people, you seem to be skipping over Americas role in that practice.
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And how many of these ongoing border disputes have resulted in long lasting schisms or civil war?
When I refer to drawing up our own union, I'm speaking to the nearly 80 years of compromise and confrontation inside the US between free and slave owning states. A long running and ruinous completion between the southern and northern states for power in Congress and for control over future territories. The point I'm trying to make is we own our civil war here. We can't blame it on a former colonial or imperial master who drew lines on a map which divided us or we just didn't like. We drew them ourselves. Ultimately, the blame has to go to a Constitution that kept alive the institution of Slavery.