[..] Once we will be out of the danger zone entailed in seceding,many heterosexuals will say that they were on our side already in those tragic times which preceded our independence.That will probably be true from a personal point of view,but I doubt on a political one. [..]
We shal take every help offered to us by friendly individuals or states, why shouldn't we? Another thing is, of course, that we shall in the first line trust into our own abilities and efforts. A people, however weak, shall build its statehood by its own means (in my free enterpretation of Gen. DeGaule this was probably what he wanted to express by his words). The state is of course free to forge coalitions with other states - these coalitions being to the mutual advantage of involved countries. It is of course advisable to keep certain distance to one's friends, as sometimes the embraces can end in stifling of the smaller partner. I think that France might serve as an example of both geopolitical realism and sufficient militarily independence.
[..] what happened to the Castro regime when it was suddently left in the lurch by its Soviet providers at the beginning of the 90s. [..] We can have independence on an island,but as I have read and then seen for myself on site and in Havana,with a very low standard of living.Always awaiting for some cargo from abroad. [..]
I think you wrongly adress the geography as the cause of Cuba's problems, while you should adress its the political regime. This planet is full of islands which are prospering economically and culturally, because they are well-governed and the inhabitants directly profit from the fruits of their work. As particularly bright examples I shall remind of Taiwan, Singapore or even Ireland. As far as the economy is concerned, Cuba is simply very badly governed and that's the main cause of the poverty there. Surelly, the unjustified economic sanctions of the US have done much evil to Cuba, but there are more countries to trade with. Alone, Castro's regime has even managed to spoil relations to the usually
very benevolent European Union, instead of taking the chance of economic cooperation. Certainly, in good times the insulary economics are somewhat disadvantaged in comparison to the mainland (necessety of employing ferries is indeed tiresome). But in times of foreign hostility and economic blocades, the access to the open sea is the only possibility to secure the supply and exports. Just think about it: having a few direct neighbours, an "inconvenient" mainland-country can be easily blocaded by simple closing of borders, and would have no chance to breach the blocade. This country would be even not able to be reached by air-planes without permission of it's neighbours. Having access to a sea port or even being an insulary state, offers much better degree of indiopendency, as any sea blockade would require an open war and even then there are better opportunities to breach the blokade. We therefore would be well-advised to seek a territory with a coastal line.
Immigration. Yes, a difficult issue. The wealthy middle class crowd is indeed often not aware of its the lacking political rights, untill these guys actually comes into situations of being discriminated against or physically attacked. This is not a particular fault of these individuals, as we all usually learn out of our own experience. A western yuppy with a nice job and a house in a safe neighbourhood has usually little reasons to complain about his situation, but he instantly becomes smarter, once he was not allowed to visit his boyfriend in a hospital or could not marry his greate love from another country. All the binationals who can't live together now, would wish to emigrate to the gay state, because they would have much higher quality of life there. A homosexual military specialist drummed out of the US military service after years of good service would be humiliated to a degree that would abolish
any economic concerns, if he would have the chance to re-gain his self-respect in our service. Not to speak about millions of the poor devils who anyway live in danger and poverty - they would improve their situation immensely in both economical and political respect. I think that our primary difficulties would originate not that much from the lacking desire to emigrate to the gay state, but simply the ignorance about our existence. Our basic human stock will probably come from the poorer countries, and our ptimary task would be to reach these guys with our propaganda instruments.
In Germany,you live by my standards in an overcrowded area and condition.In north America,I grew up with plenty of unoccupied space to roam. [..]
Sure, there is much free space in North America, and it would probably take years untill the Canadian government would become aware of some squatterers who have occupied some of it territories. But I have little doubts that finally these guys would come with their bulldozers and level any unlawfully erected settlement on their territory. I am not familiar with the habits of Canadian autorities, but I would expect them to act this way. And what's with immigration? Encouraging illegal immigration to Canada would simply ruin those guys who will try to follow us by doing so, most of them being caught and extradicted to their home countries. We must find some legal possibilities, or at least not
totally illegal ones. For example, it should be possible to buy larger territories in unpopulated areas and encourage gays settling in those areas. The property being in "private hand" would allow to restrict the internal "immigration" to those who are gay, and the government would find it tiresome to control these private arrangements. A distant island in private hand would make it additionally difficult for the autorities to interfere into our internal busines, as long as no severe crimes are being committed there. Establishing some enterprise(s) there would allow us to formally employ our people and by doing so help them to gain the necessary immigration papers. However, a honest agreement with the central government would be much more favorable: for beginning it should suffice fully to have the status of an autonomous territory, being de-jura not independent, but de-facto self-governed.
Israel`s WMDs are probably useless.Its ennemies aren`t located on another continent but next door.It has to consider the direction of the wind if it fires a thermonuclear missile on,say,Damascus.For Israel could itself be included in the devastation it would then have wrought.Thermonuclear weapons are to engage distant ennemies.Israel can count only on its regular armed forces to remain independent against the 100 million arabs next door.Once the US gone as a world power,Israel will probably be overrun.Owing to its size,it cannot wage a long war,nor afford a single defeat. [..]
Though I do not share your opinion about the effectivity of nuclear deterrence against next neighbours, I agree that the geopolitical situation of Israel is not especially advantageous. Be it like it is, one cannot always choose the ideal position from the map, but rather is forced to make the best from the given situation. While trying to establish the gay state, we of course would do good to consider not only the instant availability of any particular territorial solution, but also to assess the long-time prospectives of both economical and geopolitical developement. For example, we could simply occupy any distant uninhabited territory and declare independence regardless of other state's claims. Hovever, being unable to establish there an economy we would invariably end up as a bunch of lunatics, and the effect on the macropolitical world would be
zero. What we need is not only a free territory, but rather the due organization to channalize our human and financial ressources for achieving any of our essential goals. With such organization we would be able to acquire the neccessary territory, build up there an infrastructure and transport our endangered folks to this territory. At the end, the state is like a huge corporation: as more money it has, the more possibilities to change the world it has also. Indeed, there are some corporations which have a budget larger than those of the most states.