• CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Well, the same kind of WAS said about post-WWII Germany. It was joint-colonised for half a century and ceased to exist as a single independent state until 1989, and even then, German reunification was pretty controversial

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      1 day ago

      Indeed, I shouldn’t have glossed over the time and difficulty of such processes. Whatever the solution, it’s unlikely the process will take any less than one generation or 30 years.