II. Reg Indep: Creative Force of Independence
That a government seeks recognition to join the international community of nations and governments recognized by such agencies as the United Nations has unleashed an enormous force onto the world scene whereby some other nations are bound to react. A government that has gained the vote of its people to proceed to take on the responsibilities involved in becoming an independent, responsible agent on behalf of the will of its citizenry through popular referendum, will no doubt, incur the wrath and indignation of some interested states already in existence affected by this monumental proclamation of the new state. The heralding could lead to civil war (as in the case of Georgia) or it could simply be accepted (as apparently in the case of UK leaving EU).
Nevertheless, there will be hard feelings, to be sure. Attachments will be severed; and a mild earthquake will be felt! But, things have a way of working themselves into a new situation for all concerned, especially, with recognition of the fledgling country.
Current examples:
1. As Catalan is breaking away from Spain, the national government has jailed the political leaders who support independence.
2. The UK has so far weathered aspirations toward independence that Scotland has shown.
3. The Kurdish government has sought independence from Iraq; but so far the neighboring countries and the Iraqi national government have discouraged such talk!
Of course, what is missing is an established internationally approved protocol for a region seeking independence to follow. There has been greater understanding to sovereign countries desirous to join with some other republic than a bona fide, and seemingly legitimate, request for break away status.
Nevertheless, the force is real, hard-hitting and is consonant with the natural tendencies toward change that develops individual and social characteristics and ways of doing things in distinction to those who stand to lose control of that region to impose by whim, caprice, and intolerance a status quo or something even more stringent.
I think it is noteworthy, that although Russia claims to respect those republics that broke with it to go into independence, it still seeks to control with Berlarus the Commonwealth of Independent States--an organization that by its nomenclature should defend the idea of an independent republic free of Russian domination.
Nevertheless, there will be hard feelings, to be sure. Attachments will be severed; and a mild earthquake will be felt! But, things have a way of working themselves into a new situation for all concerned, especially, with recognition of the fledgling country.
Current examples:
1. As Catalan is breaking away from Spain, the national government has jailed the political leaders who support independence.
2. The UK has so far weathered aspirations toward independence that Scotland has shown.
3. The Kurdish government has sought independence from Iraq; but so far the neighboring countries and the Iraqi national government have discouraged such talk!
Of course, what is missing is an established internationally approved protocol for a region seeking independence to follow. There has been greater understanding to sovereign countries desirous to join with some other republic than a bona fide, and seemingly legitimate, request for break away status.
Nevertheless, the force is real, hard-hitting and is consonant with the natural tendencies toward change that develops individual and social characteristics and ways of doing things in distinction to those who stand to lose control of that region to impose by whim, caprice, and intolerance a status quo or something even more stringent.
I think it is noteworthy, that although Russia claims to respect those republics that broke with it to go into independence, it still seeks to control with Berlarus the Commonwealth of Independent States--an organization that by its nomenclature should defend the idea of an independent republic free of Russian domination.
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