Transjlwanja wrote:Andsed wrote:Depending on some potential referendums and polls the UK claims over places like Scotland and Northern Ireland may not be legitimate. With Nagorno-Karabakh the majority in the region dont want to be part of Azerbaijan and so their claim is not legitimate. The same would apply to Scotland and Norther Ireland if the majority in those regions voted that way.
Do you believe that referenda or demographics are what makes a country legitimate? How far are you willing to take this principle? Should a (hypothetically) majority Somali neighborhood of Stockholm be able to unilaterally secede to from an independent Somali republic, for instance?
I think the important factor is that the Armenians have always been there rather than just getting off the bus and claiming self-identification. As for Britain, it wouldn't make sense for Scotland to keep becoming independent then in the union again then independent again each time the winds change. You could make the case that the referenda should have a 75% majority for such a drastic (and IMO horrific) constitutional change.