I submitted this link too but removed it as a duplicate, and it’s really a category error from the Liberland people. They are writing from their perspective - they are a sovereign state with citizens, and the raid by Croatian authorities is a literal invasion. However, from the point of view of Croatia, international law, and everyone normal, they are squatters who are illegally constructing buildings on land controlled by Croatia.
A lot of the HN commentators sympathetic to Liberland would have a fit if a group of Mexicans set up an enclave in Texas and started constructing buildings. These hypothetical Mexicans might have their own spin on the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which they spun out of reading too much Wikipedia, and their claims are just as valid as Liberland’s.
There are a lot of neocolonial echos in the Liberland post too:
Liberland has the ability to bring significant investment, jobs and tourism to this economically depressed region.
Yeah sure, you can do a lot within the framework of existing Croatian law to bring investment, there’s no need to set up a LARP country on a floodplain to do so.
Isn’t it also not just a floodplain but also a highly contested border area which their intrusion has made even more complex and annoying. They are lucky Serbia isn’t also walking over the river to mess with their stuff. Wonder if that will happen to the Free Republic of Verdis. https://verdisgov.org/
(And also yeah lol them building that on a floodplain. [laughs in dutch])
To be honest, I think it would be hilarious if Texas were annexed by Mexico, even just a little bit. Texans deserve a competent government who will invest in them and conduct reasonable diplomacy, and they’re not getting that from Texas.
I submitted this link too but removed it as a duplicate, and it’s really a category error from the Liberland people. They are writing from their perspective - they are a sovereign state with citizens, and the raid by Croatian authorities is a literal invasion. However, from the point of view of Croatia, international law, and everyone normal, they are squatters who are illegally constructing buildings on land controlled by Croatia.
A lot of the HN commentators sympathetic to Liberland would have a fit if a group of Mexicans set up an enclave in Texas and started constructing buildings. These hypothetical Mexicans might have their own spin on the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which they spun out of reading too much Wikipedia, and their claims are just as valid as Liberland’s.
There are a lot of neocolonial echos in the Liberland post too:
Yeah sure, you can do a lot within the framework of existing Croatian law to bring investment, there’s no need to set up a LARP country on a floodplain to do so.
Isn’t it also not just a floodplain but also a highly contested border area which their intrusion has made even more complex and annoying. They are lucky Serbia isn’t also walking over the river to mess with their stuff. Wonder if that will happen to the Free Republic of Verdis. https://verdisgov.org/
(And also yeah lol them building that on a floodplain. [laughs in dutch])
To be honest, I think it would be hilarious if Texas were annexed by Mexico, even just a little bit. Texans deserve a competent government who will invest in them and conduct reasonable diplomacy, and they’re not getting that from Texas.