• khannie@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    How do you give up territory “temporarily,”

    A long time ago Ireland did it. We’re still living with that partition today and as part of the good Friday agreement we gave up our constitutional claim on the North. There was a referendum on it (all constitutional changes here require one) and I, along with the vast majority of the Republic, voted in favour with some caveats which would allow reunification.

    If they concede now that land is gone though. Gone. There will be no caveats given to Ukraine.